Personne : Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Titre Date Rôle
Le Bouquet de Thalie 1764-12-25 compositeur
Le Faucon 1771-11-02 compositeur
La Belle Arsène Inconnue compositeur
Le Cadi dupé 1761-02-04 compositeur
Le Maître en droit 1760-02-23 compositeur
Le Déserteur 1769-03-06 compositeur
Félix 1777-11-10 compositeur
On ne s’avise jamais de tout 1761-09-14 compositeur
Le Roi et le fermier 1762-11-22 compositeur
Rose et Colas 1764-03-08 compositeur
Aline, reine de Golconde 1766-04-10 compositeur
Les Aveux indiscrets 1759-02-07 compositeur
L’Ile sonnante 08-1767 compositeur
Le Rendez-vous bien employé 1774-01-10 compositeur
Le Nouveau Monde Inconnue compositeur
Philémon et Baucis 1766 compositeur
La Rosière de Salency 1769-10-25 compositeur
Pagamin de Monègue 1792 compositeur

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet [extrait de:] Michel NOIRAY: 'Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Monsigny [Moncigny, Moncini, Monsigni], Pierre-Alexandre (b Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, 17 Oct 1729; d Paris, 14 Jan 1817). French composer. He was born into a noble but penniless family; his aristocratic origins were useful to him in his Parisian career, however, and are evident in the fact that all his scores were published anonymously, for it would have been improper for a nobleman to admit to being a musician. He settled in Paris in 1749, intending not to become a composer of operas but, according to Quatremère de Quincy, to ‘throw himself into finance’; he did indeed enter the service of the receiver general of the Clergé de France around 1750, and then became maître d’hôtel to the Duke of Orléans about 1768. In Paris Monsigny continued the musical studies he had begun in his native province […]
    His first opera, Les aveux indiscrets, was performed in 1759 ((the same year as Philidor’s first, Blaise le savetier), but the preface to the libretto dates its composition four years earlier. […] The first result of the collaboration between Sedaine and Monsigny, which proved one of the most fruitful in French opera, was On ne s’avise jamais de tout (1761); it was such a success that it was revived at court in December of the same year, an unusual distinction for an opera first performed at the Théâtres de la Foire, and was chosen, with Blaise le savetier, for the first performance given by the Comédie-Italienne after its merger with the Opéra Comique, on 3 February 1762.
    Leaving aside his part in the pasticcio La rosière de Salency (1769), Monsigny composed nothing during the two and a half years between Le déserteur and Le faucon (1771). La belle Arsène (1773) occupies a special place in his output, both because the libretto is by Favart and not Sedaine and because the genre of comédie-féerie calls for a type of dramaturgy halfway between opéra comique and opéra-ballet. […]
    Monsigny wrote no more music after Félix. […]"
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  • Sujet BNF, catalogue
    Objet Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre (1729-1817) - forme savante à valeur internationale. Naissance : 1729-10-17 - Mort : 1817-01-04. Compositeur de musique. - Collaborateur de Sedaine à partir de 1761.
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