Personne : Étienne Joseph Floquet

D'une troupe

Role Troupe De à
musicien
 Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1775 Inconnue

Titre Date Rôle
L’Union de l’amour et des arts 1773-09-07 compositeur
Le Seigneur bienfaisant 1780-09-25 compositeur
Azolan 1774-11-15 compositeur
Hellé 1779-01-05 compositeur
La Nouvelle Omphale 1782-11-22 compositeur
Alcindor 1787-04-17 compositeur
Les Françaises Inconnue compositeur
Alceste Inconnue compositeur

  • Sujet BNF, catalogue :
    Objet "Floquet, Étienne-Joseph (1750-1785) - forme savante à valeur internationale. Naissance : 1750-11-25 - Mort : 1785-05-10. Compositeur, auteur d'un ballet et d'un opéra. - Originaire d'Aix-en-Provence, a étudié en Italie et fait représenter ses œuvres à Paris."
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet JULIAN RUSHTON : 'Floquet, Etienne Joseph', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 1 April 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Floquet, Etienne Joseph (b Aix-en-Provence, 23 Nov 1748; d Paris, 10 May 1785). French composer. He studied in the maîtrise of St Sauveur at Aix and began his career by writing sacred music. He was in Paris by 1767 and soon gained recognition, having sacred and secular works performed and attracting aristocratic patronage. His first theatrical work, L’union de l’Amour et des arts, staged at the Opéra in 1773, is a ballet-héroïque with three independent entrées. In a period when tragic opera was languishing it won general approval; Floquet was the first composer to be called on stage after a performance at the Opéra, and the work was given 60 times up to January 1774. The following year Floquet joined the Opéra orchestra, playing the viola; and Gluck began to distract attention from native talent. […]
    Meanwhile, possibly on the advice of Grimm, Floquet went to Italy. He studied composition with Nicola Sala in Naples and counterpoint with Padre Martini in Bologna. When he returned in 1777, Piccinni was Gluck’s established rival, and the Opéra showed little interest in native composers. He composed his first tragédie, Hellé, to a libretto previously declined by Mondonville, and his first opéra comique, La nouvelle Omphale; they waited until 1779 and 1782 for performance. Hellé had only three performances… La nouvelle Omphale was well received, as was Le seigneur bienfaisant […].
    Floquet determined to try another tragic subject, a revision of Quinault’s Alceste (Le triomphe d’Alcide). […] Alceste was rehearsed and provisionally accepted by the Opéra committee but it was never performed. Floquet was already in poor health, perhaps as the result of loose living; the disappointment with Alceste may have hastened his early death. He left two unfinished operas; one, Alcindor, was completed by Dezède and performed in 1787."
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