Albert Grisar

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Albert Grisar (around 1850)
Albert Grisar (photography)

Albert Grisar (born December 25, 1808 in Antwerp , † June 15, 1869 in Asnières-sur-Seine , France) was a Belgian composer.

life and work

At the request of his family, Grisar began training as a businessman in Liverpool . From there he traveled to Paris to receive musical training from Anton Reicha . The July Revolution of 1830 forced him to return to Belgium. He gained early fame from 1832 through his romance La Folle , which became popular across Europe thanks to vocal soloists such as Adolphe Nourrit and Maria Malibran . After the first successes of his works on the stages of Brussels ( Le Mariage impossible 1833 with Jean-Baptiste Chollet and Zoë Prévost ) and Paris with Saverio Mercadante in Naples . In Naples he also investigated Belgian music in Italian church archives on behalf of the Belgian government. After his stay in Naples, he settled in Paris, initially with a government grant, where he then spent most of his life.

Girsar was best known for his 19 one-act and multi-act comic operas , which were successfully performed at the Paris Opéra-Comique in the mid-19th century . Parts of these works were created in collaboration with Friedrich von Flotow or François-Adrien Boieldieu . His one-act Bonsoir, monsieur Pantalon (German: Good evening, Mr Pantalon ) and Le chien du jardinier (German: The gardener's dog ) were re-enacted all over Europe. The four-act opera Les Amours du diable (1853, Eng. The Devil's Love ) was an international success. In addition to his stage works, he published around 50 songs, which he called " romances ". However, several of his operas were not performed during his lifetime, and his work was forgotten. Grisar's works are rarely performed today.

Stage works

The singer Pauline Marchand (also known as "Mme. Colson") in Grisars Les Amours du diable , 1853
  • Le Mariage impossible , WP : Théâtre de la Monnaie , Brussels 1833
  • Sarah ou L'Orpheline de Glencoé , world premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1836
  • L'An mil , WP: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1837
  • Lady Melvil / Le Joallier de Saint-James , world premiere: Théâtre de la Renaissance , Paris 1838
  • La Suisse à Trianon , Paris 1838
  • L'Eau merveilleuse , WP: Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris 1839
  • Les Travestissements , Paris 1839
  • Gille ravisseur , world premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1848
  • Les Porcherons , premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1850
  • Bonsoir, monsieur Pantalon , world premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1851
  • Le Carillonneur de Bruges , premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1852
  • Les Amours du diable , WP: Théâtre-Lyrique , Paris 1853
  • Le Chien du jardinier , UA: Opéra-Comique, Paris 1855
  • Voyage autour de ma chambre , Paris 1859
  • La Chatte merveilleuse , WP: Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris 1862
  • Les Bégaiements d'amour , Paris 1864
  • Les douze Innocentes , Paris 1865
  • Le Procès , 1867

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Grisar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 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. 116 .
  2. ^ Philippe Mercier: Encore un émule de Grétry: Albert Grisar (1808-1869), éléments pour une nouvelle notice biographique . In: Revue Belge de Musicologie . No. 47 , 1993, pp. 151-155 , doi : 10.2307 / 3687088 .
  3. ↑ Ariane Trifin:  Grisar, Albert. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 8 (Gribenski - Hilverding). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Grisar, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1869
Place of death Asnières-sur-Seine , France