Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam ( pronunciation : [ a'dɑ̃ ] or because of Alsatian origin of his parents and ancestors also [ a'dam ]) (born July 24, 1803 in Paris ; † May 3, 1856 ibid) was a French opera and ballet composer . The Narrhallamarsch is one of his works .
Life
Adolphe Adam was the son of the composer and piano virtuoso Louis Adam , who taught for many years as a professor at the Paris Conservatory . This made him a student of his father. However, his father spoke out against his son's career as a musician, with which Adam, against his resistance, became a student of Anton Reicha and, for a short time, François-Adrien Boïeldieu at the Paris Conservatory.
He began his career as a composer with fantasies and variations on opera melodies, then wrote arietas for the Vaudevilles small theaters and several operettas, and emerged in 1836 with the opera The Postillon by Lonjumeau , which received widespread acclaim. It was soon followed by a series of similar works in the light comic genre , such as The Brewer of Preston , The Faithful Shepherd , The Rose of Péronne and The King of Yvetot , through which Adam has achieved an honorable place among the composers of the modern age.
His compositional talent was discovered and promoted at the Conservatory by François-Adrien Boieldieu . After completing his studies, he was temporarily head of an opera company and was able to celebrate some successes as a piano virtuoso. At the age of 26, Adam wrote his first one-act play Pierre et Cathérine . He then composed five more operas within just under two years, most of which were in the style of opera buffa . He also wrote the French Christmas carol Minuit, Chrétiens ( O Holy Night ). His melodious and cleverly orchestrated ballet Giselle was very successful .
Charles Adolphe Adam was appointed a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1844. In 1847 he founded a third lyric theater in Paris , which initially achieved great success but perished as a result of the February Revolution in 1848 , with Adam losing his not insignificant fortune. Soon after (1849) he was appointed teacher of composition at the Conservatory instead of his father, where he worked until his death. He composed a total of 53 operas and ballets.
Works
Ballets
| title | Type | Libretto / choreography | premiere |
|---|---|---|---|
|
La chat blanche together with Casimir Gide |
July 26, 1830 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés | ||
| fist | 3 acts | 1832 London | |
| La fille du Danube | 2 nudes (4 images) | Eugène Desmares. / Filippo Taglioni | 21. S9.1836 Paris, Opéra |
| Les Mohicans | 2 acts. | F.Guerra | July 5, 1837 Paris, Opéra |
| L'ecumeur des mers | 1840 | ||
| The hamadryads | choreographic-musical interlude, 2 parts. | Ch .: de Colombey and Paolo Taglioni | April 28, 1840 Berlin, Royal Theater |
|
Giselle ou les Willis German Giselle |
Ballet pantomime 2 acts | Théophile Gautier and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, after Heinrich Heine / Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot | June 28, 1841 Paris, Opéra. 1843 Berlin |
|
La jolie fille de Gand deutsch The beautiful girl from Ghent |
Ballet pantomime 3 acts (9 images) | Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Albert. / Albert (F.Decombe) | June 22, 1842 Paris, Opéra |
| Le diable à quatre | Ballet pantomime, 2 acts (4 images) | Adolphe de Leuven, after Jean Michel Sedaine./ Joseph Mazilier | August 11, 1845 Paris, Opéra. German: 1846 Hamburg |
|
La dille de marbre ( The Marble Maiden ) |
1845 | ||
| Griseldis or Les cinq sens | 3 acts | Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir. / J.Mazilier | February 16, 1848 Paris, Opéra |
|
Le filleule des fées (with A. de Clémenceau de Saint-Julien) |
Ballet-féerie 3 acts (7 images) | Jules Perrot and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges / Jules Perrot | October 8, 1849 Paris, Opéra |
| Orfa | 2 acts | François-Hippolyte Levroy and Henri Trianon. / J.Mazilier | December 29, 1852 Paris, Opéra |
| Le corsaire | Ballet pantomime, 3 acts (5 images) and epilogue | Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, after Lord Byron The Corsair / Joseph Mazilier | January 23, 1856 Paris, Opéra |
Stage music
| title | Type | libretto | premiere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guillaume Tell | Incidental music, drama 5 acts | Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine, Charles Désiré Dupeuty and Villeneuve, after Friedrich Schiller | June 16, 1828 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville |
| Isaura | Incidental music, drama 3 acts | Antier and Nézel | October 1, 1829 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés |
|
La Faridondaine (together with Louis Adolphe de Groot) |
Incidental music, drama 5 acts. | December 30, 1852 Paris, Porte St Martin |
Operas / Vaudevilles
| title | Type | libretto | premiere |
|---|---|---|---|
| La baiser au porteur | Vaudeville | Augustin Eugène Scribe, Justin Marie Alexis Gensoul and Charles de Courcy | June 9, 1824 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville |
| Les hussards de Felsheim | Vaudeville 3 acts | March 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| L'exile | Vaudeville | Spring 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| La dame jaune | Vaudeville | Spring 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| L'héritière et l'orpheline | Vaudeville | May 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| Perkins Warbeck | Vaudeville 3 acts | Autumn 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| Monsieur Botte | Vaudeville 3 acts | November 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| Le caleb de Walter Scott | Vaudeville 1 act | December 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville | |
| Le mal du pays ou La bâtelière de Brientz | Operetta 1 act | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier ( Mélesville ) | December 28, 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase-Dramatique |
| Valentine | Vaudeville 2 acts | Spring 1828 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés | |
| Le barbier châtelain | Vaudeville 3 acts | Spring 1828 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés | |
| Le jeune propriétaire et le vieux fermier | Opéra comique 3 acts | Armand d'Artois. | February 6, 1829, Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés |
| Pierre et Catherine | Opéra comique, 1 act | after Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | September 1829, Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Danilova | Opéra comique 3 acts | Jean Baptiste Charles Vial and Paul Duport | April 23, 1830 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Les trois Cathérine | Opéra comique 3 acts | Guillaume Edouard Monnais and Paul Duport | July 26, 1830 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés |
|
Trois jours en une heure together with Henri Romagnesi |
Opéra comique 1 act | Jules Joseph Gabriel and Michel Masson | August 21, 1830 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Joséphine ou Le retour de Wagram | Opéra comique 1 act | Jules Joseph Gabriel and Ferdinand Simon de Laboullaye | December 2, 1830 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Le morceau d'ensemble | Opéra comique 1 act | Frédéric de Courcy and Pierre François Adolphe Carmouche | March 7, 1831 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Le Grand Prix or Le voyage à frais communs | Opéra comique 3 acts | Jules Joseph Gabriel and Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson | July 9, 1831 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Casimir ou Le premier tête-à-tête | Opéra comique 3 acts | Charles Desnoyers | December 1, 1831 Paris, Théâtre des Nouveautés |
| His First Campaign | Military Spectacle 2 acts | James Robinson Planché | October 1, 1832 London, Covent Garden |
| The Dark Diamond | Historical melodrama 3 acts | 5 November 1832 London, Covent Garden | |
| Le proscrit ou Le tribunal invisible | Opéra-Comique 3 acts | Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine and Pierre François Adrien Carmouche | September 18, 1833 Paris. |
| Une bonne fortune | Opéra comique 1 act | A.Fénéol and Edouard Mennechet | January 23, 1834 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Le chalet | Opéra comique 1 act | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier ( Mélesville ), after JWvon Goethe Jery and Bäteli | September 25, 1834 Paris, Opéra-Comique. English The Swiss Cottage : September 12, 1836 New York. German: December 8, 1846 Frankfurt. |
| La marquise | Opéra comique 1 act | Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe de Leuven | February 28, 1835 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Micheline or L'heure de l'esprit | Opéra comique 1 act | Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson, Théodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve and Amable Villain de Saint-Hilaire | June 29, 1835 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
|
Le postillon de Lonjumeau dt .: The postillon of Lonjumeau engl .: Postilion! |
Opéra comique 3 acts (120 min.) | Adolphe de Leuven and Léon-Lévy Brunswick | October 13, 1836 Paris, Opéra-Comique. June 3, 1837 Berlin March 30, 1837 London. |
| Le fidèle berger | Opéra comique 3 acts | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | January 6, 1838 Paris, Opéra-Comique. September 15, 1838 Berlin |
|
Le brasseur de Preston (The Marches of Fools and the March AM II 113 come from this work ) |
Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick | October 31, 1838 Paris, Opéra-Comique March 21, 1839 Hamburg. |
| Regine or Les deux nuits | Opéra comique 2 acts | Augustin Eugène Scribe | January 17, 1839 Paris, Opéra-Comique August 24, 1839 Berlin |
| La pure d'un jour | Opéra comique 3 acts | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | September 19, 1839 Paris, Opéra-Comique March 23, 1840 Munich, April 14, 1840 Berlin |
| La rose de Péronne | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Adolphe d'Ennery | December 12, 1840 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| La main de fer ou Un mariage secret | Opéra comique 3 acts | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Adolphe de Leuven | October 26, 1841 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Le roi d'Yvetôt | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick | October 13, 1842 Paris, Opéra-Comique. German: March 25, 1843 Leipzig |
| Lambert Simuel | Opéra comique 3 acts. Completion of the opera by François Louis H.Monpou | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Anne Honoré Joseph Mélesville | September 14, 1843 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Cagliostro | Opéra comique 3 acts | Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | February 10, 1844 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Richard en Palestine | Grand Opéra 3 acts | Paul Foucher | October 7, 1844 Paris, Opéra |
| La bouquetière | Opéra 1 act | Hippolyte Julien Joseph Lucas | May 31, 1847 Paris, Opéra |
|
Les premiers pas ou Les deux génies ou Les mémoires de la blanchisseuse (together with Daniel François E. Auber, Michele Carafa and Jacques Fromental Halévy) |
Pasticcio 1 act and prologue | Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz | November 15, 1847 Paris, Opéra |
|
Le toréador ou L'accord parfait , German The Toreador or The Perfect Agreement |
Opéra comique 2 acts | Thomas Marie François Sauvage | May 18, 1849 Paris, Opéra-Comique. German: March 27, 1909 Berlin |
| Le fanal | Opéra 2 acts | Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | December 24, 1849 Paris, Opéra |
|
Giralda ou La nouvelle Psyché , German Giralda or Die neue Psyché |
Opéra comique 3 acts (135 min.) | Augustin Eugène Scribe | July 20, 1850 Paris, Opéra-Comique. German: February 25, 1851 Berlin |
|
La poupée de Nuremberg , German The Nuremberg doll |
Opéra comique 1 act (60 min.) | Adolphe de Leuven and Victor Arthur Rousseau de Beauplan | February 21, 1852 Paris, Opéra Comique. German: November 26, 1852 Berlin. English Dolly : December 26, 1860 Cork |
| Le farfadet | Opéra comique 1 act | François Antoine Eugène de Planard | March 19, 1852 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
|
Si j'étais roi , German if I were king |
Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe d'Ennery and Jules Henri Brésil | September 4, 1852 Paris, Théatre Lyrique . German: January 21, 1904 Breslau |
| Le sourd ou L'auberge pleine | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Ferdinand Langlé, after Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges | February 2, 1853 Paris, Opéra-Comique. German No room in the inn : December 2, 1861 Vienna |
| Le roi des halles | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick | April 11, 1853 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| Le bijou perdu | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe de Leuven and Philippe Auguste Alfred Pittaud de Forges | October 6, 1853 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| Le muletier de Tolède | Opéra comique 3 acts | Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery and Charles Clairville | December 16, 1854 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| À Clichy, episode de la vie d'un artist | Opéra comique 1 act | Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery and Eugène Grange | December 24, 1854 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| Le bousard de Berenchy | Opéra comique 2 acts | Joseph Bernhard Rosier | October 17, 1855 Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Falstaff | Opéra comique 1 act | Adolphe de Leuven and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | January 18, 1856 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| Mam'zelle Geneviève | Opéra comique 2 acts | Arthur de Beauplan and Léon Lévy Brunswick | March 23, 1856 Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique |
| Les pantins de violette | Opéra comique 1 act | Léon Battu | April 29, 1856 Paris, Bouffes-Parisiens. German: September 7, 1861 Vienna |
| Le dernier bal | Opera comique | Augustin Eugène Scribe | Not listed |
Web links
Commons : Adolphe Adam - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Works by and about Adolphe Adam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Adolphe Adam in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Adolphe Adam in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 112 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adam, Adolphe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adam, Adolphe Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera and ballet composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1856 |
| Place of death | Paris |