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Roger J.V. COTTE : 'Coignet, Horace', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Coignet, Horace
(b Lyons, 13 May 1735; d Lyons, 29 Aug 1821). French amateur violinist, singer and composer. He was active in Lyons as a pattern-designer and dealer in embroidered goods, as an official clerk and as musical director of the city (from 1794 or 1795). After the Revolution he became music instructor to the Duchesse d'Aumont in Paris (at the same time serving as corresponding member of the Lyons Academy), and later returned to Lyons, where he served on the directorial board of the conservatory. He was known as a gifted violinist, and composed harpsichord pieces, romances, a set of Trois duos concertants de violon et fugues (Paris, n.d.), a revolutionary hymn for the Rousseau celebrations at Lyons (14 October 1794) and some theatrical music (including an opéra comique, Le médecin de l'amour, and an overture to La Harpe's Mélanie). His only extant music, however, is that for which he is most famous, the instrumental interludes to Rousseau's melodrama Pygmalion. These were composed in 1770, shortly after Coignet had met Rousseau in Lyons and impressed him with the score to his Le médecin de l'amour. […]
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Notice, Gazette universelle de Lyon (26 Oct 1821).
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H. Coignet: ‘Particularités sur J.-J. Rousseau pendant le séjour qu’il fit à Lyon en 1770’, Œuvres inédites de Rousseau, ed. V.D. de Musset-Pathay, i (Paris, 1825), 461ff [orig. in Mahul (1822)]
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J.D. Drake: ‘The 18th-Century Melodrama’, MT, cxii (1971), 1058–60."
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