André Hippolyte Chelard
André Hippolyte Jean Baptiste Chelard , also called Andreas Hypolit and with different spellings, (born February 1, 1789 in Paris , † February 12, 1861 in Weimar ) was a French composer.
Life
The son of a clarinetist at the Paris Opera took lessons from François-Joseph Fétis from the age of eleven . From 1803 he studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris with Rodolphe Kreutzer , harmony with Victor Dourlen and composition with François-Joseph Gossec .
In 1811 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome . During his stay in Rome he took lessons from Giuseppe Baini , Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli and Giovanni Paisiello . After his return to France in 1816 he became a violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera .
In 1827 his opera Macbeth was premiered at the Académie royale de musique . While the Paris performance was a failure, the performance in Munich the following year met with great acclaim. In 1831 Chelard settled in Munich, where his opera Midnight was premiered that same year . After a stay in London (1832–33) he successfully performed the opera Die Hermannsschlacht in Munich in 1835 .
In 1840 Chelard succeeded Johann Nepomuk Hummel as court conductor in Weimar. Here, however, he could not assert himself against the competition of Franz Liszt , who was appointed extraordinary court conductor in 1842. He was suspended from duty in 1851 and paid full salary in 1852, and spent the last years of his life withdrawn in Weimar.
Works
- La casa da vendere , Opera buffa (Libretto: Andrea Leone Tottlola ), premiered in Naples in 1815
- Macbeth , Tragédie lyrique (Libretto: Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle based on Shakespeare ), premiered in Paris in 1827, in German translation by Caesar Max Heigel in 1828 with Nanette Schechner in Munich
- La Table et le logement , Opera comique (Libretto: Jules Joseph Gabriel , Théophile Marion Dumersan ), premiered in Paris in 1829, in German translation as Der Student 1832 in Munich
- Chant Grec , cantata, premiered in Paris in 1829
- Messe solenelle , premiered in Paris in 1830
- Midnight , great romantic opera (German adaptation of the unperformed opera Minuit , German translation by Theodor Hell ), premiered in Munich in 1831
- The Hermannsschlacht , great heroic opera (libretto: Carl Weichselbaumer ), premiered in Munich in 1835
- The sea cadets or the emancipation of women (also: Down with men ), comic opera (libretto: Carl Sondershausen ), premiered in Weimar in 1844
- Les Aigles romains , Héroïde lyrique (Libretto: Hermann du Casse ), premiered in 1853 in Paris, 1864 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Web links
- Works by and about André Hippolyte Chelard in the German Digital Library
- List of stage works by André Hippolyte Chelard based on the MGG at Operone
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- ^ André Hippolyte Chelard in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- ↑ Hubert Amft: Weimar and the "Grande Nation". Attempt a chronicle of relationships . in: ATALA, No. 9, March 2006 ( Memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chelard, André Hippolyte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chelard, André Hippolyte Jean Baptiste (full name); Hypolit, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1861 |
| Place of death | Weimar |