Personne : Louis-Joseph Francœur

Titre Date Rôle
Lindor et Isménie 1766-08-29 compositeur
Palémon et Sylvie Inconnue compositeur
Les Rémois Inconnue compositeur

  • Sujet References
    Objet Benoit (1992) p. 306 : article sur la famille par B. Dünner. Fils de Louis
    Pitou 1715-1815, p. 234-5.
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Michelle FILLION / Catherine CESSAC : 'Louis-Joseph Francœur', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 19 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Louis-Joseph Francœur [Francœur neveu] (b Paris, 3 Oct 1738; d Paris, 10 March 1804). Violinist, composer, editor and opera administrator, son of (2) Louis Francœur. After his father’s death he was brought up by his uncle (3) François Francœur. In September 1745 a royal edict granted him succession to his father's seat in the 24 Violons du Roi. Between 1746 and 1752 he served as page of the Musique de la Chambre, leaving that post to join the Opéra orchestra. In 1754 he bought Luc Marchand's succession to the position of joueur de luth de la chambre, which dœs not necessarily imply that he played this instrument.
    Francœur's career at the Opéra was more illustrious than that in the royal chamber. In 1764 he was raised to assistant maître de musique of the Opéra orchestra, second to Berton, and when the latter succeeded François Francœur and Rebel as director in 1767 Louis-Joseph replaced him as first maître de musique, a post he retained until 1779, when he became director of the orchestra. […] In 1781 he retired from the Opéra but was re-engaged by 1787 when he was again mentioned as assistant director of the governing committee. […] In 1790 the Opéra became a public utility free of royal ties; Francœur promptly resigned and tried to organize a new company supported by the king. The Francœur-Cellerier company, founded in 1792, was short-lived and financially disastrous to Francœur. On 16 September 1793 he was imprisoned by the revolutionary forces and, though freed less than a year later, found himself without pension and deeply in debt. He was re-engaged at the Opéra, remaining an administrator there until 1799."
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  • Sujet œuvres
    Objet Michelle FILLION / Catherine CESSAC : 'Louis-Joseph Francœur', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 22 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Les Rémois ou Les brouilleries villageoises (intermède, 1), 1757.
    L'Aurore et Céphale (ballet-héroïque, 1), Paris, Magasin de Musique de l'Académie, 7 May 1766.
    Lindor et Ismène (ballet-héroïque, 1), Paris, Opéra, 29 Aug 1766 [1st entrée in Les fêtes lyriques (ballet-héroïque, M. de Bonseval), other 2 entrées by Rameau and P.-M. Berton]
    Palémon et Sylvie (pastorale-héroïque, 1, Brunet).
    Chloé et Sylvandre (op, 2).
    Brouillon des changements qu'on m'a fait faire dans l'opéra d'Ajax [by Bertin de la Doué] lorsqu'on remis cet ouvrage au théâtre en 1768 ou 1769.
    Rev. of Lully's Amadis, Act 2 scene I.
    Rev. of aria Qu'un beau jour renaisse sans nuage [from F. Francœur's Scanderberg], 1v, vn, bc.
    Sketches for several acts of Lully's and Gluck's Armide."
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