Personne : Félix-Jean Prot

D'une troupe

Role Troupe De à
musicien
 Comédie-Française 1775 1822

Titre Date Rôle
Le Printemps 1781-05-19 compositeur
Le Bal bourgeois 1738-03-13 compositeur
Les Rêveries renouvelées des Grecs 1779-06-26 compositeur
L’Amour à l’épreuve 1784-08-13 compositeur

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Aristide WIRSTA: 'Prot, Félix-Jean', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Prot, Félix-Jean (b Senlis, Oise, 1747; d Paris, early 1823). French composer. He studied the violin, and composition with Pietro Gianotti. When he was 14 his one-act opéra comique, Le bal bourgeois, for which Favart wrote some music, was performed with great success at the Foire de St Laurent. He joined the orchestra of the Comédie-Française as a violist in 1775 and remained there for 47 years. In 1779 his Les rêveries renouvelées des Grecs, a parody of Gluck’s Iphigénie operas, was performed at the Théâtre Italien. Two more operas followed in the 1780s, but although he had Favart behind him, Prot could not compete with Grétry, Duni, Philidor and Monsigny during a period in which French musical theatre received poor support; therefore he turned to teaching and the composition of chamber music, particularly duos and trios."
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online (A. Wirsta / E. Cook)
    Objet Aristide WIRSTA/Elisabeth COOK: 'Prot, Félix-Jean', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com : "Prot, Félix-Jean (b Senlis, Oise, 1747; d Paris, early 1823). French composer, violinist and violist. He studied the violin with Desmarets and composition with Gianotti, joining the orchestra of the Comédie-Française as a violist in 1775 and remaining there for 47 years. […]
    Prot's first stage work, Les rêveries renouvelées des grecs (1779), was a reworking of a popular libretto by Favart, La petite Iphigénie, first heard in 1757 (this in turn was a parody of Guimond de la Touche's tragedy Iphigénie en Tauride). Le bal bourgeois, which received a private performance at Brunoy the following year, was indebted to similar sources: Favart's original had been given at the Foire St Germain in 1738 and reworked (though not by Prot, as has previously been suggested) for the Foire St Laurent in 1761. Further works enjoyed a modest success at the Comédie-Italienne: Le printemps included several ‘tableaux agréables’(according to the Mercure de France) although the use of patois in the vaudevilles was apparently considered distasteful by some, and the libretto L'amour à l'épreuve received praise for an adroitly managed comic intrigue."
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