Personne : Antoine Favre

Titre Date Rôle
L’Heure du berger 1737-11-12 compositeur

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet [extrait de:] Michelle FILLION: 'Favre, Antoine', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Favre [Faure], Antoine (b ?Lyons, ?c1670; d after 1737). French violinist and composer. His father, Durand Favre, was a violinist from Lyons who, with Antoine, was hired as a member of the newly founded Lyons Opéra in 1687. According to the Supplément aux lyonnais dignes de mémoire (1757), an unreliable document apparently consulted by Fétis, Antoine Favre followed the singer Françoise Journet when she left Lyons to join the Paris Opéra about 1705. There seems to be no evidence supporting Fétis's claim that Favre joined the Paris Opéra orchestra at this date; nor can references to an unidentified ‘Faure’active as a violinist in Paris in the last two decades of the 17th century be linked conclusively with either Antoine or his father. In 1713 Favre is first mentioned as a member of the petit chœur of the Opéra orchestra. […] In 1737 Favre, still a Musicien de l'orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, composed a divertissement for the one-act comedy L'heure du berger by Boizard de Pontault. As there are no further references to Favre's activities after this date, it is impossible to verify Boisgelon's statement, taken over by Fétis, that Favre died in Lyons in 1747."
    Utilisateur AS
  • Sujet Reference
    Objet Benoit (1992) p. 285.
    Utilisateur MM