Charles-Simon Favart
Charles-Simon Favart (born November 13, 1710 in Paris , † May 12, 1792 in Belleville ) was a French opera and comedy poet .
Life
Favart came from a family of artisans; his father was a pastry chef. He began to write during his school days at the College Louis le Grand . His debut with “La France délivrée par la Pucelle d'Orléans” (a poem about Joan of Arc ) was very successful. When he then also in the Académie des Jeux Floraux aligned Jeux floraux was excellent, he devoted himself only to writing.
On December 12, 1745, Favart married the actress Marie Duronceray and had a son with her, the future actor and writer Charles-Nicolas Favart . In the winter of 1745/46, the Marshal of Saxony, Hermann Moritz von Sachsen signed Favart and his wife, who followed him and an entire ensemble to Brussels .
Favart and his family later returned to Paris. They both earned their living as actors and as writers of plays. Favart conceived this almost exclusively for the Opéra-Comique and wrote it either together with his wife or with Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon . That is why nowadays it is hardly possible to differentiate between his or her original work.
Between 1759 and 1770 Favart also acted as a correspondent for the Viennese court and during this time also became a member of the Société de la table ronde . When his wife Marie died on April 22nd, 1772, his creativity also dried up. Around 1780 he retired to Belleville (now Paris) and died there on May 12, 1792, almost forgotten.
Trivia
Jacques Offenbach created a musical memorial to the poet composer and his wife with the Opéra-comique Madame Favart .
Works (selection)
Favart's literary work includes numerous comedies and operettas , all of which are kept in the Rococo style and mostly depict rural scenes ( shepherd poetry ) like nature. In addition, there are also a few Schwänke in which he was based on the Fabliaux of the Middle Ages .
- Annette and Lubin .
- L'astrologue de village .
- Bastien et Bastienne (known to this day through Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne ).
- Ninette à la cour .
- Les trois sultanes .
- Le Mariage par escalade , opéra-comique, à l'occasion de la prize du port-mahon .
- L'Anglais à Bordeaux .
- Work editions
- Theater . Slatkine, Geneva 1971 (5 vols., Reprint of the Paris edition 1763/72)
- Théatre choisi . Vanraest, Paris 1810 (8 vol.).
- Oeuvres choisies . Didot, Paris 1813 (3 vol.)
- Mémoires . Paris 1809 (3 vols. Including his Correspondance ).
literature
- Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). Kröner, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-520-38801-4 , p. 373.
- Auguste Font: Favart. L'opéra-comique et la comédie-vaudeville au XVIIe et XVIII siècles . Slatkine, Geneva 1970 (reprint of the Paris 1894 edition).
- A. Iacuzzi: The European Vogue of Favart. The diffusion of the opera-comique . AMS-Press, New York 1978, ISBN 0-404-60165-0 (reprint of the New York 1932 edition).
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles-Simon Favart in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Charles-Simon Favart in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Favart, Charles-Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Favart, Charles Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera and comedy poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1710 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1792 |
| Place of death | Belleville |