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Grove Music Online
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KENNETH LANGEVIN: 'Borghese, Antonio', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 31 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Borghese [Borghesi, Borghesy], Antonio D. R.
(fl late 18th century). French composer. He may have been born in Rome and seems to have travelled widely. A performance of his comic opera The Fair Venetian at Crow Street, Dublin, on 18 March 1776, and the publication of some sonatas in London suggest he was in the British Isles at that time. By 1780 he apparently was teaching in St Petersburg. His name next appears in connection with a performance of his operetta Der unvermuthete glückliche Augenblick (2, Borghese) in the Städtisches Theater, Riga, on 21 June 1783. By 1785 he was in Paris, where he received a privilege to publish his treatise L’art musical ramené à ses vrais principes … traduites de l’ltalien, and in 1786 (31 October) his opéra comique [Le roi de] La basoche (1, ? E. A. Bignon) was performed at the Théâtre des Beaujolais.
English editions of L’art musical appeared in London (1790, 1795), indicating that Borghese may have emigrated to escape the Revolution. In 1799 he was back in Paris, performing in a concert with his wife, Agathe-Elisabeth-Henriette Larrivée (the younger daughter of the singers Henri and Marie-Jeanne Larrivée). Apart from his three operas (all lost) and his treatise, Borghese wrote only a few minor instrumental and vocal pieces."
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