Andre Grétry

Andre-Ernest-Modeste Grétry is a Compositeur inhabitant of Li2ege then French born with Liege the February 8th 1741 and died with Montmorency the September 24th 1813.

Biography

Although his/her father was Violon ist, Grétry expressed few gifts for the music. He studied the Chant, the Basse continues and the composition, but was not a large orchestrator. He made the voyage of Rome to the Fondation Darchis (Easter 1761 - February 1766). Its knowledge of the song, the Italian music and its melody inventiveness encouraged it to write opera S. Its first Op3era Comique, Isabelle and Gertrude , was created in 1766 with Geneva. A commemorative plaque is reproduced there on the house of the Main street where it remained.

He marries in 1771 Jeanne-Marie Grandon, girl of the Lyons painter Charles Grandon.

Following the success which its obtained Huron with Paris in 1768, it composed about fifteen operas and more than forty light operas until in 1803. During second half of the 18th century, he was the Master of the kind in France. After having been director of the music of the queen, it became, after the Révolution, protected from Napoleon, which decorated it knight with the Légion of honor. Covered of glory, it was named with the Académie in 1795 and was withdrawn in the old property of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with Montmorency.

According to its wills, it was buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise, (the 11th division) but its heart, repatriated in its birthplace in 1842, is deposited in its bronze statue, opposite the Royal Opéra of Wallonia. The academy of music of Liege bears its name.

Its work

Operas

  • Vendemmiatrice (1765)
  • Isabelle and Gertrude or Sylphs supposed (1766)
  • the Marriages samnites (1768)
  • the Expert (1768)
  • Huron the (1768)
  • Lucile (1769). Its famous vocal quartet Where can one be better than within his family devoted the glory of the type-setter. The melody will be taken again later by Henri Vieuxtemps in the adagio of its fifth concerto for violin.
  • the Table speaking (1769)
  • Momus on the ground (1769)
  • Sylvain (1770)
  • Both Miserly (1770)
  • Friendship with the test (1770)
  • the Friend of the family (1771)
  • Zémire and Azor (1771)
  • Splendid the (1773)
  • Rosière de Salency (1773)
  • Céphale and Procris or Marital Love (1773)
  • the False Magic (1775)
  • the Marriages samnites '' (1776)
  • Pygmalion (1776)
  • Love for love (1777)
  • Matroco (1777)
  • the Judgment of Midas (1778)
  • Three Ages of the opera (1778)
  • False Appearances or the jealous Lover (1778)
  • the Statues (1778 )
  • unforeseen Events (1779)
  • Aucassin and Nicolette or Manners of the good old day (1779)
  • Andromaque (1780)
  • Emilie or the Beautiful Slave (1781)
  • Colinette at the court or the Double Test (1782)
  • Embarrassment of the richnesses (1782)
  • Electra (1782)
  • Columns of Alcide (1782)
  • Thalie with the new theater (1783 )
  • the Caravan of Cairo (1783)
  • Theodore and Paulin (1784)
  • Richard Heart-of-lion (1784). The air O Richard, O My Roy will become the royalist anthem during the Revolution, entonné by the Bodyguards and the regiment of Flanders in front of the royal family, with the Opera of Versailles, causes direct walk of Parisian on the Palate of Versailles. The air I feel my heart which beats which beats/I do not know why is included in the Queen of spades of Tchaïkovski.
  • the village Test (1784)
  • Panurge in the island of the lanterns (1785)
  • Oedipus in Colonne (1785)
  • Host (1786)
  • the Marriage of Antonio (1786)
  • Mistakes by resemblance (1786), in collaboration with his/her daughter Lucile Grétry
  • the Count of Albert (1786)
  • Toinette and Louis (1787), in collaboration with his/her daughter Lucile Grétry
  • It English prisoner (1787)
  • the Rival Confidant (1788)
  • Raoul Bore-Blue (1789)
  • Aspasie (1789)
  • Pierre Large the (1790)
  • Roger and Olivier (1790)
  • Guillaume Tell (1791)
  • Cecile and Ermancé or the Two Convents (1792)
  • Basile or Diamonds cut diamonds (1792)
  • Séraphine or Absent and presents (1792)
  • the Congress of the kings (1794)
  • Joseph Barred (1794)
  • Denys the tyrant, schoolmaster in Corinthe (1794)
  • the Festival of the reason (1794)
  • Callias or Nature and fatherland (1794)
  • Diogène and Alexandre (1794)
  • Lisbeth (1797)
  • Anacréon at Polycrate (1797)
  • the Barber of the village or the Ghost (1797)
  • Elisca or Maternal love (1799)
  • the Helmet and the Doves (1801)
  • Zelmar or Asylum (1801)
  • the Household (1803)
  • provided Girls (1803)

Other works

  • instrumental Works (Ballet S, prologs)
  • vocal Works (revolutionary songs, lovesongs)
  • crowned Works ( De profundis, Requiem )

External bonds

  • Biography
  • Another Biography
  • Its operas, light operas and their representations on site CÉSAR

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