Jean-Benjamin de Laborde

Biography

Wire of the Banking Jean-François Laborde (Bayonne, June 6th, 1691 - Mottonville, January 1st, 1769), and of his second wife, it is linked as for him at Adelaide-Suzanne de Vismes (Paris, November 10th, 1753 - Paris, July 18th, 1832), poetess and lady of bed of the queen Marie-Antoinette. Itself first and favorite manservant of Louis XV, general Receiver of finances, then Farmer general, it studied the Violon and the composition, put in scene several operas and made print several works sumptuously. Editor of songs and Historian of the music at his beginnings, Laborde officiated towards 1780 like polygraph by publishing in particular the Tableaux topographic, picturesque, physical, historical, moral, political, literary, of Switzerland of Béat Faithful Antoine Dominique Zurlauben (1780-1786). In its Letters on Switzerland, addressed to Madam of M *** (1783), correspondence on its Swiss lathe of of the summer 1781, it betrays a certain kindness with respect to Rousseau. Here what he says of Vervey on July 25th 1783:

The country is called Lavaux, and produces mainly wine, which I found the best of Switzerland. It is white, soft, light, pleasant; it is a good wine usually, and extremely end when it is natural, i.e. when the merchants or the carrying ones did not have fun with our costs. One crosses the villages of Lutry, Cully, Saint-Saphorin, Corsier, and the tower of Glérolles, built, says one, by the Romans. The only curiosity of all this country is a milliary column which proves that of Avenches with Saint-Saphorin there are 37.000 steps; what does not leave be pleasant to know. Me here in Vevey. I could not express you, Madam, how much I wished to see this city and his surroundings if praised by Rousseau, and become so famous for his novel of Héloïse. I often said, if the funds of all this history is only one tale, at least descriptions which it makes of the sites, manners, etc must be truths. But, Madam, my waiting was entirely misled. I admittedly found the situation of Vevey charming, and his inhabitants of good people; but the divine thickets of Clarens, the Elysium, the charms which one tastes while living of the country cottages, all that existed forever only in the brain boiling of Rousseau.

Lover in title of the dancer Marie-madeleine Guimard, it took part in the representations which she gave in her theater of Puppet, then with that of Roadway-in Antin.

Sometimes one confuses it with another farmer general, him-also guillotine in 1794, with which it however does not have any family ties: Jean-Joseph de Laborde.

Works

For the musical works to refer to the German site corresponding (and its sources): HTTP: /www.operone.de/komponist/laborde.html

; Writings

Test on the old and modern music , Paris, P.D. Pierres, 1780.
picturesque Voyage from France .
historical Memories on Raoul de Coucy, 1781.
Thought and Maxims , 1791, ED., Paris, Lamy, 1802:

“Why same regards that do one believes oneself due when large refuses them, seem a grace when it grants them? ” (p.49)
“the money is a good servant, but a bad Master. ” (p.6)

; Musical works

the Enquiring one of birds (booklet of Derozée), Parody (Mons, 1748)
the Nightingale or the Marriage secret (booklet of Charles Collé), given on November 18th, 1751 to the Castle of Berny then in 1751 in Paris, to the Theater of Company
Gilles, boy painter, z' in love-T-and-rival (booklet of Antoine Alexandre Henri Poinsinet according to E. Duni, the Painter in love with its model , 1757), parade and parody in an act, given into private on March 2nd, 1758
the Tests of the love (booklet of Louis Anseaume), given in 1759 to the Saint-Germain Fair in Paris
the Three rival Goddesses (1760, not represented)
the Good Friends or Good Comp2ere (booklet of Michel-Jean Sedaine) given on March 5th, 1761 to the Op3era Comique; re-examined like the Ring lost and found on August 8th, 1764 in the Commedia dell'Arte
Annette and Lubin (booklet of Jean-François Marmontel), pastoral in 1 act given on March 30th, 1762 to the Theater of the marshal of Richelieu
Ismène and Isménias or the Jupiter Festival (booklet of Pierre Laujon), lyric tragedy in 32 acts given on June 13rd, 1763 with Choisy then on December 11th, 1770 to the royal Academy of music
the Sleeper waked up (joint booklet of Ménilglaise and Laborde), given on October 27th, 1764 to Fontainebleau
Loves of Gonesse or the Baker (“The Baker's boy and the mitronne”) (booklet of Charles-Simon Favart and Chamfort), opera buffoon in an act given on May 8th, 1765 to the Commedia dell'Arte
Fanny (booklet of Chamfort), 1765 (not represented)
Thétis and Pélée (booklet of Fontenelle, lyric tragedy in 3 acts given 10 octbre 1765 to Fontainebleau
Zénis and Almasie (booklet of Chamfort and the duke of Vallière), ballet-heroic in 1 act given on November 2nd, 1765 to Fontainebleau with Bernard de Bury
the Rifle shot (1766)
Madragore (1766)
the Ghost (booklet of François Guillaume Desfontaines), (1766)
Pandora (booklet of Voltaire and Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon), lyric tragedy in 5 acts given on February 14th, 1767 to the Theater of the Menu-Pleasures
Amphion (booklet of Thomas), ballet-pastoral-heroic in 1 act given on October 13rd, 1767 to the royal Academy of music
Colette and Mathurin (booklet of Desfontaines), 1767
the Miller of Gentilly (booklet of Pierre-Rene Lemonnier), meslée comedy of ariettas in an act on October 13rd, 1768 in the Commedia dell'Arte
Ingenuous (booklet the Prior), 1768
Alix and Alexis (booklet of Poinsinet) given on July 6th, 1769 with Choisy)
the Cat lost and found (booklet of Carmontelle), given in 1769 to the Commedia dell'Arte
Jeannot and Colin (booklet of Desfontaines), 1770
Around fifty , pastoral in 3 acts given on August 13rd, 1771 to the royal Academy of music
Amadis de Gaulle (booklet of Philippe Quinault), lyric tragedy in 5 acts given on November 26th, 1771 to the royal Academy of music)
the Ticket of marriage (booklet of Desfontaines), given on October 31st, 1772 to the Commedia dell'Arte
Adele de Ponthieu (booklet of Jean-Paul-Andre Razins of Saint-Marc), tagédie lyric in 3 acts given on December 1st, 1772 to the royal Academy of music) with Pierre Montan Berton
the Project (booklet of Nicolas Etienne Framéry), 1772
the Love collector (booklet of Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau), given in 1779 to Trianon
the Enquiring one of spirit (booklet of Favart)
Choix of songs put in music by Mr. of Borders , Paris, Impr. from Lormel, 1773 (with illustrated boards of Jean-Michel Moreau (1741-1814)

; Charts and plans

History abregee of the decorated South Sea plusiers charts , 1791
Chart of part of the South Sea with details on the principles isles of this sea by Mr. de Laborde , Paris, P. Didot, 1791
Chart of part of the Holland News and the isle of Arsacides discovered by Mrs de Bougainville de Surville and Shortland; and of some other dimensions of the South Sea by Mr. de Laborde , Paris, P. Didot, 1791
Tables topographic, picturesque, physical, historical, moral, political, arts persons of Switzerland , Paris, Closier, 1780 (3 vol.)

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