Personne : René Charles Guilbert Pixérécourt

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Objet "Auteur dramatique. Formes rejetées du nom de l'auteur : Guilbert de Pixérécourt, René Charles ; Guilbert-Pixérécourt, René Charles."
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Sujet Grove Music Online
Objet Karin PENDLE: 'Pixérécourt, René Charles Guilbert de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 14 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Pixérécourt, René Charles Guilbert de (b Nancy, 22 Jan 1773; d Nancy, 25 July 1844). French librettist and dramatist. Son of a nobleman, he intended to become a lawyer, but his plans were interrupted by the French Revolution and he fled to Germany in 1789. By 1793 he had returned to Nancy, then moved on to Paris, where he began writing plays and librettos. Not until 1797 did one of his works reach the public: Les petits auvergnats, at the Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique which, along with the Porte-St-Martin and Gaîté theatres, was always eager to produce his melodramas once their appeal was clear.
Throughout the 1820s and into the 30s Pixérécourt continued to write melodramas, opéras comiques and other stage works; at the same time, he held government posts and was director of the Opéra-Comique (1822–7). He took over the administration of the Gaîté, but in 1835 fire destroyed this house, along with many of his manuscripts, and he was forced to sell his country estate and his considerable library in order to survive financially. He retired and returned to Nancy later that year. […]"
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