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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] David CHARLTON : 'Foignet, François', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Foignet, François
(b Paris, 17 Feb 1782; d Strasbourg, 22 July 1845). French singer and composer, son of Charles Gabriel Foignet. His talents were nurtured in youthful appearances at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Elèves, and his first stage composition was given shortly before his 17th birthday. Between 1801 and 1805, when he and his father ran the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes, François made a considerable reputation as a singer and composer. His greatest success was earned while playing in his own opéra comique La naissance d’Arlequin (1803), in which he made nine changes of character and costume. […] At the time the Foignets’theatre was nicknamed ‘Le théâtre lyrique du boulevard’. Foignet’s works were not published and the music has not survived.
After Napoleon closed most of the smaller Parisian theatres in 1807 Foignet sought his livelihood as a singer outside Paris, first as a tenor and later as a baritone. In 1818 he was in a troupe in Liège, and the next year he wrote an opera for the theatre at Bruges. In 1822 he sang in the Grand Théâtre, Marseilles. He is afterwards noted as being in Nantes (1824), Lille (1826, 1828), Ghent (1827, 1830) and Rouen (1840). For a time he was regisseur of the theatre at Angoulême."
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