Personne : François Granier/Grenier/Garnier

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Role Troupe De à
musicien
 Théâtre Italien (Opéra Comique) 1765 Inconnue

Titre Date Rôle
Le Poirier 1755-01-18 compositeur
La Toilette de Vénus 1757-11-18 compositeur
L’Amour corsaire 1760 compositeur
Les Fêtes du sérail 1758-09-21 compositeur

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet MICHAEL BARNARD: 'Granier, François', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 8 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Granier [Garnier, Grenier], François (b 1717; d Lyons, 18 April 1779). French composer, cellist and violinist. He was related to Louis Granier. He spent his early years as a musician in Grenoble and Chambéry and married the niece of the actress Le Grand in Chambéry. In 1751 he moved to Lyons, where he taught composition, the cello and violin, and published his first works, Six solos pour violoncelle (1754). In 1756 his name appeared among the Lyons cellists listed as ‘pensionnaires du Concert de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts’. In Lyons he began a long and fruitful association with the choreographer Noverre, for whom he provided at least three ballet scores (La toilette de Venus, ou Les ruses de l’Amour, L’amour corsaire, ou L’embarquement pour Cythère and Les jalousies, ou Les fêtes du serail, all performed at the Lyons opera between 1758 and 1760), and probably three additional scores (Les jaloux sans rival, Les caprices de Galathée and L’impromptu du sentiment); none of them survives.
    According to Marignan, Granier was a member of the orchestra that performed the Lyons première of Rousseau’s Le devin du village. Detractors of Rousseau circulated the story, credited as late as the 19th century by Castile-Blaze, that the music of this opera was written by a certain Granet of Lyons and stolen by Rousseau after the former’s death. Marignan, and later Pougin, identified ‘Granet’as François Granier and discredited the story by questioning Granier’s ability to produce music, particularly a vocal work, of such high quality.
    Granier moved to Paris in 1760, where he became a member of the Comédie-Italienne orchestra in 1765–6. From 1762 to 1791 13 Recueils d’airs, arrangements for two flutes of airs from the French and Italian opera, were published under his name. A symphony and minuet of Granier were performed between acts at the Comédie-Italienne; the latter was published (c1764) with a minuet by Exaudet. In 1766 Granier returned to Lyons, where he conducted his symphony. He played second violin in the orchestra at Lyons for the 1772–3 season and was named ‘Accompagnateur du concert’."
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