Desboulmiers
Jean-Auguste Jul (l) ien , called Desboulmiers (* 1731 in Paris , † 1771 ibid) was a French writer and librettist.
Desboulmiers embarked on a military career as a young man and temporarily served in Germany. On his return to Paris he became known as an opera librettist. Toinon and Toinette were initially set to music by François-Joseph Gossec (premiered 1767), later in the Polish translation by Andrzej Slowaczynski by Maciej Kamieński (1785) and Wiktor Każyński (around 1840).
He also wrote two extensive works on opera and theater history: the seven-volume Histoire anecdotique et raisonnée du Théâtre-Italien, depuis son rétablissement (1697) jusqu'à l'anée and the Histoire du théâtre de'l Opéra-comique (both 1769) , as well as some novels such as De tout un peu , Histoire du marquis de Solanges and Histoire des filles du 18e siècle .
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- François-Xavier Feller, François Marie Pérennès, Jean Baptiste Pérennès: Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes qui se sont fait un nom par leur génie, leurs talents, leurs vertus, leurs erhurs ou leurs crimes , Volume 4, Gauthier 1834, p 279
- François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique , Volume 3, Firmin Didot, 1866, p. 2
Web links
- Literature by and about Desboulmiers in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desboulmiers |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jullien, Jean-Auguste; Desboulmiers, Jean-Auguste-Julien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1731 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1771 |
| Place of death | Paris |