Gio Paolo Bombarda
Gio Paolo Bombarda (* around 1650 in Rome ; † December 6, 1712 in Paris ) was an Italian musician, financial advisor and treasurer of Maximilian-Emmanuel of Bavaria in Brussels.
Life
Bombarda came to Munich as a musician in 1680, where he married the daughter of the composer Ercole Bernabei in 1686 . When Maximilian Emanuel became governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Bombarda followed his employer to Brussels. Here he conducted negotiations with French and Dutch bankers. In 1693 he married the daughter of the Antwerp banker Cloots for the second time.
In 1694 he founded the first public opera house in Brussels with his compatriot Pietro Antonio Fiocco , called "Opéra du Quai au Foin". After the bombing of Brussels by French troops during the War of the Spanish Succession, Maximilian Emanuel commissioned Bombarda to set up a larger opera house, the Monnaie Theater , which opened its doors in 1700.
As a skilful financier, Bombarda received the reputation in 1703 to set up the Paris Opera after several failed attempts by the previous director Jean-Nicolas de Francine.
His daughter Anne-Marie-Pauline (1697–1719) married Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou in 1716 and his son Pierre-Paul (1698–1783), who called himself de Bombarde de Beaulieu, married the daughter of the famous Parisian Salonnière and writer in 1718 M me doublet .
See also
source
- JP Van Aelbrouck and M. Couvreur: Gio Paolo Bombarda et la création du Grand Théâtre de Bruxelles, Le Théâtre de la Monnaie au XVIIIe siècle . 1996, Cahiers du GRAM pp. 1–27 ULB - Groupe de Recherche en Art Moderne
- Genealogy of Bombardas (PDF file; 84 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bombarda, Gio Paolo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bombarde, Jean-Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian musician, financier and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1650 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1712 |
| Place of death | Paris |