Charles-Henri de Blainville

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Charles-Henri de Blainville (* 1711 in Tours or Rouen ; † 1769 or after 1771 in Paris ) was a French cellist , composer and music theorist of the pre-classical period.

Life

According to François-Joseph Fétis, Charles-Henri de Blainville, whose life is very little known, was born in Tours in 1711 and died in Paris in 1769. Most of the biographers followed this unsecured information. This is countered by the note on the title page of his Sonatas op.  1 from 1740, Par Mr. Blainville de Roüen . If he himself printed the Recueil des récréations lyriques, published in 1771, he must have been alive at that time.

Charles-Henri de Blainville worked mainly under the protection and patronage of the Marquise de Villeroy. It received its place in music history through a symphony performed at the Concert spirituel in 1751 , which Blainville had composed in a mode he invented between the keys, the " mode mixte ". An exchange of letters with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his support at the Academy of Sciences, which confirmed Blainville's findings. A controversy arose in the Mercure de France about Rousseau's point of view with the Geneva scientist and painter Jean-Adam Serre (1704–1788).

In addition to his compositions, which are considered insignificant, Blainville wrote several treatises, one of which was also published in German under the title “ The essentials of musical art, or considerations on music ”.

Works (selection)

Operas
  • Thésée , opéra (lost)
  • Miadas , comédie héroique en un acte (1753 Paris, Théâtre du Collège Louis-le-Grand) (lost)
Chamber music
  • Six sonates en trio pour deux violons ou deux flûtes et basse Op. 1 (around 1740)
  • Premier livre de sonates pour le dessus de viole (around 1750)
  • Second livre de sonates à deux violoncelles (around 1750)
Orchestral works
  • Symphonie à double quatuor , performed at the Concert spirituel in 1741 (lost)
  • Six simphonies op.1 , around 1750
  • Six simphonies op.2 , around 1750
Religious music
  • Les secondes leçons ténèbres (Paris, 1759)
Secular vocal music
  • La prize de Berg op Zoom (Paris, 1751)
  • Le dépit amoureux (Paris, around 1755)
  • Ode , text by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , for male voice and accompaniment, performed at the Concert spirituel in 1757
  • Récueil des récréations lyriques , for two voices and violin and cello accompaniment (Paris, 1771) missing

Fonts

  • Charles-Henri de Blainville, Essai sur un troisième mode (1751)
  • Charles-Henri de Blainville, L'Esprit de l'art musical ou réflexions sur la musique (1754), Editions Minkoff, (1975) ISBN 2-8266-0596-8
  • Charles-Henri de Blainville, Histoire générale, critique et philosophie de la musique (1767), Le Grand livre du mois (1972) ISBN 2-286-60304-9 , copy of the original at Google Books

Discography

  • Premier Livre de Sonates pour le dessus de viole , Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert Gambe (Christophorus, 1997)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1860)
  2. ↑ The music in past and present , 2nd edition Vol. 3, columns 25-26
personal data
SURNAME Blainville, Charles-Henri de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blainville, Charles-Henry; Blainville, Charles Henri de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cellist, composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours or Rouen
DATE OF DEATH 1769 or after 1771
Place of death Paris