Pierre-Joseph Candeille (8 December 1744 – 24 April 1827) was a French composer and singer, born in
Estaires. He studied at
Lille before moving to Paris, where he worked singing ''basse-taille'' in the chorus of the
Opéra and the
Concert Spirituel between 1767 and 1781, except for a brief period (1771—1773) he spent in
Moulins. From 1784, he became a full-time composer. He worked at the Opéra as choirmaster from 1800 to 1802 and again from 1804 to 1805, before retiring to live in
Chantilly.
[Rushton in ''Grove'']
Candeille wrote four symphonies, as well as ballets, divertissements and sacred music (including a mass and a
Magnificat). None of his operas achieved much success, with the exception of his revision of
Jean-Philippe Rameau
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's ''
Castor et Pollux''. Candeille's version was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 14 June 1791. By 1 January 1793, it had had 50 performances. It continued to be one of the most popular operatic works in the
Revolutionary
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...
and
Napoleonic period and was last staged in 1817. Candeille retained much of Rameau's original music, including "almost all the dances."
[Darlow pp. 221–225]
Candeille was the father of the composer, singer and actor
Amélie-Julie Candeille.
Works
Staged works
All information from
Julian Rushton in ''
Grove
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''.
Unperformed works
*''Les fêtes lupercales'' (pastorale-héroïque), 1777
*''L'Amour et Psyché, Bacchus et Erigone'', 1780 (proposed revision of two entrées of
Mondonville's ''
Les fêtes de Paphos'')
*''Thémire'' (opéra), c.1781
*''Lausus et Lydie'' (opéra), 1786
*''Les jeux olympiques'' (opéra), 1788
*''Ladislas et Adélaide'' (opéra), 1791
*''Roxane et Statira, ou Les veuves d'Alexandre'' (tragédie lyrique), c.1792
*''Brutus'' (opéra), 1793
*''Danaé'' (opéra), c.1796
*''Tithon et l'Aurore'' (opéra), c.1796
*''Ragonde'' (pastorale-héroïque), c.1798
*''Pithys'' (pastorale-héroïque)
References
Sources
*Beril H. Van Boer ''The Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period'', Scarecrow Press, 2012.
* Mark Darlow, ''Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794'', Oxford University Press, 2012.
*
Julian Rushton, "Candeille, Pierre-Joseph" in ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''
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1744 births
1827 deaths
Musicians from Nord (French department)
French opera composers
French male opera composers