Nicolas Dalayrac

Nicolas-Marie d' Alayrac , known as Nicolas Dalayrac , born with Low wall the June 8th 1753 and died in Paris the November 26th 1809, is a Compositeur French.

Become lawyer, it is encouraged by his father to give up his career and to continue its passion for the Musique.

He obtains a commission of second lieutenant in the guard of the count d' Artois at the court of Versailles. He receives a pay of 750 book S, which he supplements by a Rente of 450 pounds granted by his father. He profits from the councils of Grétry.

Its first compositions are duets of violin, trios of cords or quartets. It publishes them under a pseudonym with Italian consonance. The quartets have a great success, and his true identity is discovered. According to Pixérécourt, he is member of the maconnic Loge “Last nine Sisters” and composes in 1778 the music for the reception of Voltaire and that of the festival in the honor of Benjamin Franklin at Anne-Catherine Helvétius.

He marries the actress Gilberte Pétronille Sallarde. With the Revolution, it changes its name of Alayrac into Dalayrac.

In 1798, he is member of the royal Académie of Sweden, and receives the Légion of honor in 1804.

It composes the Poet and the musician at the time of the birthday of the crowning of Napoleon in 1809.

Light operas

  • the Knight with the mode (1781)
  • the Small Supper (1781)
  • the total Eclipse (1782)
  • the Lover rules (1780)
  • the Dowry (1785)
  • Nina or the Insane one by love (1786)
  • Azémia (2 parts, 1786)
  • Renaud d' Ast (1787)
  • Sargines (1788)
  • Fanchette (1788)
  • Both Small Savoyard (1789), booklet of Benoit-Joseph Marsollier of Vivetières, presented for the first time by the ordinary actors of the king on January 14th, 1789
  • Raoul, lord de Créqui (1789)
  • the stormy Evening (1790)
  • the patriotic Oak (1790)
  • Green-Green (1790)
  • Camille or the Underground (1791)
  • Agnes and Olivier (1791)
  • Philippe and Georgette (1791)
  • Very for the love (1792)
  • Ambroise (1793)
  • Asgill (2 parts, 1793)
  • Catch of Toulon (1794)
  • the Congress of the kings (1794)
  • the Childhood of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1794)
  • the Prisoners (1794)
  • Adele and Dorsan (1795)
  • Marianne (1796)
  • the Detached house (1797)
  • the Lesson (1797)
  • Gulnare (1797)
  • Alexis (1798)
  • Leon (1798)
  • Primerose (1798)
  • Adolphe and Clara (1799)
  • House for sale (1800)
  • Léhéman (1801)
  • the Anteroom (1802)
  • the Loop of hair (1803)
  • the Young prude (1804)
  • One hour of marriage (1804)
  • the House of the caliph (1805)
  • the House of the flowers (1805)
  • Gulistan (1805)
  • Two Words (1806)
  • Koulouf (1806)
  • Lina (1807)
  • Elects-Hortense (1808)
  • the Three Sultanas (1809)
  • the Poet and the musician (posthumous, 1811)

External bonds

  • All its works and their representations on site CÉSAR
  • Both Small Savoyard (booklet)

Random links:Articulation (anatomy) | Canton of Stamps | Jules Charles Henri of Clermont-Thunder | Fourthly (Italy) | MTASC | Penthilus