(Fran’-swa A-dre-an’ Bwald-yö) 1775–1834 French composer Boieldieu was one of the leading opera composers of the early nineteenth century, concentrating on the opéra comique tradition. He studied with Charles Broche in his home town of Rouen, and was influenced by late eighteenth-century opéra comique, especially the works of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813) and Méhul. His earliest operas were encouragingly received ...
1775–1834, French François-Adrien Boieldieu wrote his first opera, La fille coupable (‘The Guilty Girl’, 1793), when he was 18. Shortly afterwards, he left his home town of Rouen and settled in Paris. He scored quick success with his opéras comiques, but his talent did not stop at the standard ingredients of the genre. He was also capable ...
By the early eighteenth century, a harp furnished with pedals had been developed in Bavaria. In this instrument, each of the foot-operated pedals directed a mechanism that could sharpen every string playing notes of the same name. Initially there were five such pedals, controlling C, D, F, G and A. By the end of the ...
all Swedish composers. Recommended Recording: Sinfonie singulière, Symphony in E flat, Danish National Radio SO (cond) Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos) Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | François-Adrien Boieldieu | Early Romantic | Classical ...
1806–54, German The German soprano Henriette Sontag made her debut in 1821 as the princess in Boieldieu’s Jean de Paris (1812). In 1823, in Vienna, Weber asked Sontag to create the title role in his Euryanthe (1822–23) after seeing her in Rossini’s La donna del lago. He was justified when her appearance in Berlin in 1825 caused an ...
Paris, the Opéra-Comique, from 1801 to 1823. He returned to the Opéra-Comique in 1826 and 1833. Jean-Blaise Martin created numerous roles for several composers, including Méhul, Boieldieu and Halévy. Martin simultaneously taught at the Paris Conservatoire. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Simon Mayr | Early Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | Opéra-Comique | ...
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the fashion for Scotland and for the supernatural with its libretto based on three Walter Scott novels. Greeted at the time by some critics as France’s alternative to Rossini, Boieldieu indeed shared Rossini’s easy lyricism, wit and predilection for rhythmic repetitions, although he had a subtler use of instrumentation. The other major opéra comique composer of the period ...
the Opéra-Comique settled at the Salle Feydeau in 1805. Here, its essentially radical approach to opera soon became clear. At this time, composers such as Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834) and Nicolo Isouard (1775–1818) were pioneering a new genre, the opéra comique, which was not yet acceptable to the rather hidebound Paris Opéra. The Opéra-Comique, by ...
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