Personne : Louis Mollier

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
Ballet dansé à Essonnes (1656-09-06) danseur 1656-09-06
Les Noces de Pelée et de Thétis (1654-04-14) danseur 1654-04-14

  • Sujet BNF, catalogue :
    Objet "Mollier, Louis de (….-1688) - forme savante à valeur internationale. Forme(s) rejetée(s) : < Molier, Louis de < Molière, Louis de Naissance : 16.. - Mort : 1688-04-18. Officier de la musique de la chambre de Louis XIV. - Poète, musicien et danseur dans les ballets du roi. - Compositeur de musique de divers ballets où dansa Louis XIV."
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet [extrait de:] John H. BARON/Georgie DUROSOIR : 'Mollier', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com:
    "Mollier [Molière, de Molière, Mollière, Molier], Louis de (b c1615; d Paris, 18 April 1688). French dancer, composer, pœt, lutenist and lute teacher. He was director of entertainments for the Countess of Soissons from at least 1636 until her death in 1644; it was her patronage that enabled him to enter the court. He became a royal lutenist in 1646 and was still playing the lute at court in 1673. He was named a royal dancer in 1644, and it is in this capacity that he achieved his greatest renown. He danced in nearly every ballet de cour from then until 1665 (e.g. Ballet du dérèglement des passions, 1648; Ballet de Cassandre, 1651; Ballet de la galanterie du temps, 1656), often alongside the young Louis XIV and his favourite, Lully. He composed music for ballets, and sometimes also the words (e.g. Ballet des plaisirs troublés, 1657). […] His greatest success came on 6 September 1656, when he directed the dancing and danced in a ballet presented before Queen Christina of Sweden of which he had written both text and music. […] From 1650 until his death he was lute teacher to the children of the court; his most important pupil was the dauphin. From 1665 to 1673 he composed songs for Marais’theatre, and he wrote music for two operas when opera replaced the ballet de cour as the most important form of court entertainment in the 1670s. According to the Nouveau mercure galant (December 1678), every Thursday evening at his home Mollier gave a concert performance (with Jacquet de la Guerre on the harpsichord) of a small, successful opera that had been performed at the Louvre.
    Mollier’s daughter Marie-Blanche (1644–1733) was a famous singer and dancer at court."
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