Jean-Etienne Despréaux

Jean-Etienne Despréaux is a Danseur, Chansonnier and dramatic author French born with Paris the August 31st 1748 and died in Paris the March 26th 1820.

Wire of a Hautboïste of the orchestra of the royal Academy of music, it begins itself there in 1763.

Remarkable dancer by his lightness in the high dance, it is made applaud in several Ballet S:

It takes its retirement in 1781 with a pension of 1.000 books and wife, the August 14th 1789, celebrates it dancer Marie-madeleine Guimard.

Charles Maurice, in his anecdotic History of the theater , speaks about it in these terms:

“ Widowed for ten years of Guimard, Despréaux has just died. I preferred with his writings baroques his imitation of the dancers, because it was pleasant. Top of a very small theater of which the curtain with half was lowered, it introduced on the scene the indicating finger of each hand affublé of a tunic, with shirt and shoes forming of small legs. Then, with the sound of a ballet music, it carried out steps so exactly that one recognized there the kind and the manners of the dancer or the dancer whom it wanted to point out ”.
Despréaux is the author of several Parodie S of operas, that Louis XV appreciated particularly:
  • 1777 : Berlingue , parody of Ernelinde of Sedaine and Philidor
  • 1778: Mummy , parody of Iphigénie in Aulide of Gluck
  • 1778: Romance , parody of Roland of Quinault and Lully
  • 1780: Christophe and Pierre-Luc , parody of Beaver and Pollux of Nice Bernard and Branch
  • 1786: Syncope, queen of Intrigue , parody of Pénélope of Cimarosa
  • 1801: Jenesaiki, or Exaltés de Charenton , parody of Béniovski or Exiled of Kamchattka of Boieldieu
  • 1801: the Tragedy with the light comedy, while waiting for the light comedy with the tragedy , parody of Othello of Jean-François Ducis
It in addition made the prolog of opening of the theater of the Trianon in May 1780.

But it is especially known like the author of My pastimes: songs, followed Art of the dance, poëme in four songs, copied on the poetic Art of Boileau Despréaux , text founder for the Choreography regarded art with whole share, and either as a simple entertainment.

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