Louis de Cahusac
Louis de Cahusac , born with Montauban the April 6th 1706 and died in Paris the June 22nd 1759, is a dramatic author French.
He was rider and secretary of the commands of the count de Clermont, made the countryside of 1743 with this prince, and left it to deliver itself to the literature.
There is of him several plays, like:
Dramatic and lyric poet, it collaborates with Jean-Philippe Rameau for many lyric works:
- Festivals of Polymnie (1745)
- Festivals of Hymen and the Love (1747)
- Zoroastre (1749)
- Anacréon (1754).
He is most probably the author of the booklet of the Boréades , last lyric Tragédie of Branch whose repetitions took place in 1764 but which was represented as a public only in 1982.
He also takes part in the drafting of articles for the Encyclopédie , in particular on the Ballet, the Chant, the Comedy-ballet, the Contredanse, etc
Lastly, it publishes the old and modern dance or historical Treaty of the dance ($the Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1754, republished in 2004).
Among the librettists of Branch, it is that whose collaboration lasted longest; the type-setter was equipped with a fort bad character, it was moreover very skinflint: only Cahusac managed to get along durably with him.
External bond
- Its scenic works and their representations on site CÉSAR
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