Personne : Giovanni Nicolo Servandoni

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet David J. HOUGH, Nicole WILD: 'Servandoni, Giovanni Niccolò', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 October 2001), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Servandoni, Giovanni Niccolò [Servandony, Jean-Nicolas] (b Florence or Lyons, 2 May 1695; d Paris, 19 Jan 1766). Italian or French stage designer. It is not known whether he was a Florentine who took French citizenship or a Frenchman who followed fashion and italianized his name. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Panini and later studied architecture in Rome. He settled in Paris in 1724, and in 1726 the Académie Royale de Musique asked him to design a set showing the Palace of Ninus for the première of Rebel and Francœur’s first opera, Pyrame et Thisbé. In 1728 he was appointed chief scene painter at the Opéra. […]
    In 1738 he opened a spectacle d’optique in the Salle des Machines in the Tuileries, where he mounted pantomime plays to music, illustrated with motifs from mythology and the epics, that mixed mechanical and mobile figures with live actors. […]"
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  • Sujet LACY
    Objet Dictionary of stenographers, p. 560 : "(fl. 1721-1760), London, Rome, Lisbon, Dresden, Vienna, Stuttgart, Bordeau, Bayonne, Wurtemberg, Paris, France. Scenographer and architect whose father drove a coach between Lyons and Florence. In Paris, he designed a string of operas at the Royal Academy of Music beginning in 1721, and succeded Berains as principal painter-decorator."
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