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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Michael FEND: 'Edelmann, Jean-Frédéric', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Edelmann, Jean-Frédéric [Johann Friedrich]
(b Strasbourg, 5 May 1749; d Paris, 17 July 1794). Alsatian composer. He studied law at Strasbourg University under the patronage of Baron de Dietrich, together with the baron’s son, Philippe-Frédéric Dietrich. In about 1774 Edelmann went to Paris where he became famous as a composer, harpsichordist and teacher. Méhul and Jean-Louis Adam, father of Adolphe Adam, were among his students. 15 volumes of piano music with string accompaniment, published between 1775 and 1786, as well as his activities composing and arranging at the Paris Opéra, bear witness to his success. In 1789 Edelmann returned to Strasbourg and was appointed administrator of the Lower Rhine. At first he worked side-by-side with Philippe-Frédéric Dietrich, who was elected mayor of Strasbourg in 1790 and who played host to C.-J. Rouget de Lisle’s first rendering of the Marseillaise in 1792. In the same year Dietrich and Edelmann joined rival political factions. Edelmann’s testimony contributed to Dietrich’s execution under the guillotine on 28 December 1793. Following various accusations as traitors Edelmann and his brother, the organist and keyboard maker Geofrey-Louis [Gottfried Ludwig] Edelmann (1753–94), were also guillotined on 17 July 1794, though their names were officially cleared during the subsequent reaction against the Reign of Terror. […] He was survived by Claudine Marcelline, née Caire, whom he had married on 18 June 1793, and their two sons, of whom Jean Frédéric (b 17 Feb 1795) became an influential musician in Havana.
[…] Among his works for the stage, Ariane dans l’isle de Naxos was performed almost every year between 1782 and 1801."
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