Charles de Lusse
Charles de Lusse , spelling of the surname also Delusse or De Lusse , (* around 1720, † after 1774) was a French flautist and composer .
life and work
De Lusse is only mentioned as Monsieur Delusse or MDL in contemporary printed music. The first name Charles was first mentioned in 1837 by François-Joseph Fétis . Since he is also assigned an extensive activity as an instrument maker there, it is reasonable to assume that Fétis has been mistaken for the flute and oboe maker Ch. De Lusse. It has not been established whether de Lusse was related to this Parisian family of woodwind instrument makers. De Lusse's first vocal composition appeared in print in 1743, and the first flute compositions followed in 1751. In 1758 he became a member of the orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique and the following year his comic opera L'amant statue premiered. De Lusse, who also worked as a flute teacher and wrote a flute school ( L'art de la flûte traversière ), contributed the explanatory article Musique for the illustrated book of the encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert in 1769 . After 1774 he is no longer mentioned.
De Lusse's compositions - including flute sonatas as well as songs and romances - are partly influenced by the Mannheim School .
Works
- Compositions
- L'amant statue. Weird opera. 1759.
- Recueil de romances historiques, tendres et burlesques, tant anciennes que modern, avec les airs notés. 1767 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Recueil de romances historiques, tendres et burlesques, tant anciennes que modern, avec les airs notés. Volume 2. 1774 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Teaching works
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L'art de la flûte traversière. Paris 1760. Various reprints, a. a .:
- Knuf, Buren 1980, ISBN 90-6027-207-2 .
- Ed. Scelte, Firenze 1997, ISBN 88-7242-765-7 .
- In: Facsimiles: Méthodes & traités: Series 1, France 1600–1800. Fuzeau, Courlay 2001, ISMN 979-0-2306-5822-5 (search in the DNB portal) .
literature
- Laure Belliard: Charles de Lusse, flûtiste, théoricien et compositeur: biography, méthode et oeuvre pour flûte. Université de Tours, Tours 1994, OCLC 493220187 .
- Simone Wallon: Lusse (family). In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 8 (Laaf - Meytus). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1960, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1331–1333 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 48335–48339)
- Gudula Schütz: Lusse, Charles de. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles de Lusse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Monsieur Delusse at Open Library
- Jane M. Bowers: Lusse, (? Charles) de. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Entry at musicologie.org (fr)
Individual evidence
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Volume 3 (Cabalone - Dzondi). Firmin Didot, Paris 1837, p. 269 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Gudula Schütz: Lusse (family). In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lusse, Charles de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Lusse, Charles; Delusse, Charles; Delusse, monsieur; MDL |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French flautist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1720 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1774 |