Pierre-''Julien'' Nargeot (14 January 1799Archives numérisées de la Ville de Paris, fiche n° 32/5

The BNF authority control erroneously states ''8 juillet''. – 28 August 1891) was a 19th-century French violinist, composer and conductor.

Biography

Nargeot studied music at the

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where he was admitted at age 14 in October 1813. He was a pupil of

Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including '' La mort d'Abel'' (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin S ...

for the violin and Auguste Barbereau,

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and

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for composition. In 1826, he obtained a first prize in counterpoint and fugue and in 1828 a second Second Grand Prix de Rome with the scene ''Herminie'' for one voice. There was no First Prize awarded that year. Only two candidates were rewarded: Berlioz, who was running for the third time, and Nargeot. During his studies at the Conservatoire, Nargeot was a violinist in the orchestras of Opéra-Comique and Comédie Italienne. On 31 January 1826, he joined the

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. He would remain there until 1 September 1839 when he was appointed conductor at

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. In this venue were given comédies en vaudeville and bals, which attracted a Parisian audience hungry for entertainment. The Théâtre des Variétés took a real boom under the direction of

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who presented plays by

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Alexandre Dumas (''Halifax'', 1842),

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(''Le Tricorne enchanté'', 1845),

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(''La Petite Fadette'', 1849) and operettas by

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(''La Femme à trois maris'', 1853, ''Pépito'', 1853). Thus Nargeot wrote many songs, tunes, quadrilles, rondes, inserted in these plays, especially in the ''Tricorne enchanté'' by Théophile Gautier (1845) and ''Le Lion empaillé'' by

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(1848). Some of these scores were real successes. In 1853, Nargeot left the Variétés and joined, as violist, the orchestra of the Imperial Chapelle, which Napoléon III had just reopened. The director was Auber and the conductor

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. From 1828 to 1863, he was a member of the

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. He spent the rest of his life composing, trying to represent his operettas on stages of Parisian boulevards and died in Paris at age 92.

Main works

* ''Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de piano'' * ''Plaisir d'amour'' for violin * ''Le Petit Messelin'', scène lyrique by

Théodore de Banville Théodore Faullain de Banville (14 March 1823 – 13 March 1891) was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century. Biography Banville was born in Moulins in Allier, A ...

, Folies-Nouvelles, 1855 * ''Trois troubadours'', scène lyrique by Étienne Tréfeu, Folies-Nouvelles, 1855 * ''Un Monsieur bien servi!'', 1856 * ''J. Pifferari'', 1858 * ''Le Docteur Frontin'', 1861 * ''Les Contrebandistas'', 1861 * ''La Volonté de mon oncle'', comédie en vaudeville, 1862 * ''Les Exploits de Silvestre'', 1865 * ''Un vieux printemps'', 1865 * ''Dans le pétrin'', 1866 * ''Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton'', 1876 * ''Les Ouvrières de qualité'', operetta

References

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