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Eugène Bercioux
Eugène Bercioux (1822–1898) was a 19th-century French playwright and poet. Works *1847: ''Les Arabesques'', poems, 1847 *1850: ''Nisus et Euryale'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Léon Battu *1852: ''Mam'sell'Rose'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Adrien Decourcelle *1854: ''Après la bataille'', poetry, music by Ernest Boulanger *1855: ''Zamore et Giroflée'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Charles Narrey *1856: '' La bonne d'enfant'', one-act opérette bouffe, music by Jacques Offenbach *1858: ''Maître Baton'', one-act operetta, music by Alfred Dufresne *1860: ''La Main du Seigneur'', cantique, poem, music by Boulanger *1861: ''La Malédiction'', poem, music by Boulanger *1878: ''la Fée Caprice'', opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular ''opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LiederNet
The LiederNet Archive (formerly The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive) is a donation-supported web archive of art song and choral texts founded in 1995 by Emily Ezust, an American/Canadian computer programmer and amateur violinist. The website was hosted by the REC Music Foundation from 1996 to 2015. The LiederNet Archive provides access to both original out-of-copyright song texts and copyright-protected translations submitted by over 500 volunteer translators. The website is indexed by composer, text poet or author, first line, title, or language. The LiederNet Archive is frequently cited as a source in musical studies, where the website's aggregate listings of settings of songs and poems may be more complete or more easily accessible than conventional musicological Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Battu
Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829Walsh T J. ''Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870.'' John Calder (Publishers Ltd), London, 1981, Appendix D, p. 342. in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. Life and career The son of Pantaléon Battu (1799–1870), a violinist and assistant conductor at the Opéra de Paris,Fétis F-J. ''Biographie universelle des musiciens.'' Vol I, 55. Paris, 1878. and brother of the soprano Marie Battu (1838–1888) who created Inès in ''L'Africaine'', he wrote many vaudevilles and libretti. In the fields of opéra-comique and opérettes, these were in collaboration with Ludovic Halévy, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, Jules Moinaux and Lockroy. His composers were Jacques Offenbach ('' Pépito'', '' Le mariage aux lanternes''), Adolphe Adam (''Les Pantins de Violette''), Victor Massé (''La Reine Topaze''), Georges Bizet and Charles Lecocq (''Le Docteur Miracle''). With Halévy he translated Mozart's ''Der Schau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Decourcelle
Adrien Decourcelle (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in collaboration with Théodore Barrière. He was also a successful chansonnier. In 1851 he married Caroline Lambert, a niece of Adolphe d'Ennery. His son was Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), a playwright, novelist, president of the Société des gens de lettres and commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Decourcelle was involved in legal disputes following Ennery's death in 1899. Adrien Decourcelle is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris (7th division). Selected works *1848: ''Un vilain monsieur'', play with Théodore Barrière, Théâtre des Variétés *1850: '' Les Petits Moyens'', play with Eugène Labiche and Gustave Lemoine, Théâtre du Gymnase *1895: ''La Belle Épicière'', operetta with Henri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Boulanger (composer)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer and conductor. He was known for being a composer of choral music and comic operas, a choral group director, a voice teacher, and also judged at voice contests. Biography Boulanger was born into a Parisian musical family. His father Frédéric, who left the family when Ernest was only a small child, was a cellist and professor of voice at the Paris Conservatory, winner of the First Prize in cello at the Conservatory in 1797 and a professor of cello, attached to the King's Chapel. His mother, Marie-Julie Halligner, was a mezzo-soprano at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris. He was a pupil at the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Jean-François Le Sueur, and Fromental Halévy. He studied piano with the virtuoso pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan; and operatic composition with Daniel Auber and Ferdinand Hérold. At the age of 19, Boulanger was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Narrey
Charles Narrey (1825 in Becques, Nord (French department), Nord – 1892 in Paris) was a 19th-century French writer, including novelist and playwright, from an Irish family arrived in France following James II of England. Narrey made his debut in 1847 with both a novel, ''Deux heures de mystères'', and two comedies performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, ''Les Notables de l'endroit'' (in three acts) and ''En bonne fortune'' (in one act). From 1853 until 1856, he was one of the administrators of this theatre. Narrey wrote a certain number of plays for different theatres, sometimes in collaboration with M. Michel: ''Le Passé et l'avenir'' (Odéon, 1847), ''Van Dyck à Londres'' (Odéon, 1848), ''Les Tribulations d'une actrice'' (Théâtre des Variétés, 1857), ''La Dame de trèfle'', ''Les Fantaisies de Milord'', ''Georges Brummel'', ''La Femme à la broche'', ''La Bohême d'argent'', '' Le Moulin ténébreux'', '' La Cigarette'', '' Les Marionnettes de Justin'', etc. In add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
