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"Compositeur."
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SAF
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Grove Music Online
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Paulette LETAILLEUR : 'Désaugiers, Marc-Antoine', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 23 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Désaugiers, Marc-Antoine
(b Fréjus, 1742; d Paris, 10 Sept 1793). French composer. After some indifferent musical studies he settled in Paris in 1774 and first attracted attention by his translation of G.B. Mancini's Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato (1774) under the title L'art du chant figuré de J.B. Mancini (Paris, 1776) and by his Lettres sur la musique des grecs. The first of his works to be performed in Paris was a motet presented at the Concert Spirituel in 1777. He then wrote several stage works which were performed at the Comédie-Italienne and the Opéra; among these Les deux sylphes (1781) and, above all, Les deux jumeaux de Bergame (1782, to a text by Florian) became popular. […]
He was quick to support the ideas of the Revolution and, at the request of the National Assembly, wrote a cantata for choir and orchestra, La prise de la Bastille, hiérodrame tiré des livres saints, in which he arranged fragments of verses from the Scriptures in a sequence depicting the events surrounding the fall of the Bastille. The work was enthusiastically received at Notre Dame on 13 July 1790; it was later performed several times and revised slightly in 1794. Désaugiers left many comic operas, a symphony, airs, romances and the opera Bélisaire […]"
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AS