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In the spotlight

On that day 04 December

Works

Sabinus

Set to a text by writer and musician, Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon, Sabinus is a tragic opera performed for the first time at the Académie Royale de Musique, in Versailles, on 4 December 1773. Chabanon...

Fille de Madame Angot, La (Clairville, Siraudin & Koning / Lecocq)

Works

La Fille de Madame Angot

An opéra comique in three acts set to a libretto by Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning, La Fille de Madame Angot was first performed at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels on 4 December 18...

Persons

Auguste-Étienne-Xavier POISSON DE LA CHABEAUSSIÈRE

Auteur dramatique et librettiste.

JULLIEN Jean

Persons

Jean JULLIEN

Auteur dramatique, critique et librettiste.

BURGMÜLLER Friedrich

Persons

Friedrich BURGMÜLLER

Compositeur allemand, installé à Paris à partir de la monarchie de Juillet.

VIVIER Eugène

Persons

Eugène VIVIER

Compositeur et corniste.

Focus

Romantic Harp

In early nineteenth-century France, the harp was a very modern instrument, replacing the “baroque” harpsichord and competing with the pianoforte in a quest for “classical” expression.

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