Les Fâcheux

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Data
Title: The annoying ones
Original title: Les Fâcheux
Genus: Comédie-ballet in three acts
Original language: French
Author: Molière
Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Publishing year: 1661
Premiere: 17th August 1661
Place of premiere: Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle
people
  • Éraste , lover of the Orphise
  • La Montagne , servant of the Éraste
  • Orphise
  • Alcidor , annoying person
  • Lysandre , annoying person
  • Alcandre , annoying person
  • Alcippe , annoying person
  • Orante , annoying person
  • Clymène
  • Dorantei , annoying person
  • Caritides , annoying person
  • Ormin , annoying person
  • Filinte , annoying person
  • Damis , Orphise's guardian
  • Vincent , a new servant
  • L'Espine , servant
  • La Rivière and two comrades
First page of the 1662 edition

Les Fâcheux ( The Troublesome ) is a comédie-ballet in three acts by the French comedy poet Molière . The piece in August 1661 on the castle was first performed Vaux-le-Vicomte for entertainment of King Louis XIV. The piece is the first Comédie-ballet of Molière, a hybrid of opera, ballet and spoken theater, which in France by the end of the 17th century. Century was very successful. The music was written by Jean Baptiste Lully , the choreography and equipment were by Pierre Beauchamp .

contents

Éraste, a young nobleman, is in love with Orphise. Orphise's guardian Damis tries by all means to prevent a meeting or marriage between the two. At an evening party that they both attend, nine annoying people one after the other involve them in banal conversations. This prevents the two lovers from meeting in private. Finally , Orphises' guardian comes up with the idea of ​​murdering Éraste, but is then attacked by Éraste's servant himself. However, Éraste can prevent Damis from being seriously injured and thus receives his consent to marry Orphise.

story

Vaux Le Vicomte

The piece was played for the first time on August 17, 1661 at a festival in honor of Louis XIV, which his Finance Minister Fouquet had hosted at his country estate in Vaux-le-Vicomte. In addition to water features, fireworks and a buffet prepared by François Vatel with more than 1,000 seats, Molière's Comédie-ballet Les Fâcheux was also performed in the garden of the castle. The play went a prologue of the poet Pelisson ahead, a protégé of Fouquet and friend of La Fontaine , who had himself written a poem about the festival. Molière played all nine of the Troublesome Persons ' roles , La Grange played the Eraste. The king took great pleasure in the play and arranged for it to be performed again at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal by Molières Troupe de Monsieur , where it premiered on November 4th.

For the host Fouquet, however, the party was fateful. The king resented the display of magnificence and display of wealth and power. Fouquet was arrested on September 5, 1661, charged with embezzlement, found guilty in 1664 and sentenced to exile, which Ludwig commuted to life imprisonment. He was imprisoned in the Pignerol State Prison, where he died in 1680.

The piece, which was very popular and frequently played in the time of Louis XIV, is rarely on the repertoire today. In the course of his efforts to bring Molière back onto the theater stage, Max Reinhardt commissioned Hugo von Hofmannsthal with a translation, which, however, was secretly transformed into a new play, a play by Hofmannsthal. The Troublesome premiered on April 26, 1916 in the Kammerspiele of the German Theater in Berlin. Hofmannsthal's name as translator or editor was not mentioned. It was performed together with the ballet The Green Flute with the music of Mozart . The annoying ones met with great success with audiences and critics. When it came to criticism, the piece was generally considered to be Molière's work. Only a few noticed that this was a "bogus Molière".

Edits and revisions

Piece in 5 acts with epilogue

expenditure

  • Les fâcheux. Édition de Jean Serroy. Gallimard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-07042803-6 .
  • The pests. Comedy in 3 acts by Molière. Translated by Emilie Schröder. Leipzig: Reclam [around 1900]. (Universal Library. 288.)

literature

  • JD Hubert: Molière & The Comedy of Intellect. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley 1962, ISBN 0-520-02520-2 : (See Chapter 7: The Plot's the Thing. )
  • George Houle: Le Ballet des Fâcheux. Beauchamp's Music for Molières Comedy. Paris 1991, ISBN 0-253-32851-9 ( Publications of the Early Music Institute ).
  • Norbert Altenhofer. ›The irony of things‹. To the late Hofmannsthal. Edited by Leonhard M. Fiedler. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-631-47359-1 . (= Analyzes and documents. 30.)
In it: ›Freely after the Molière‹. To Hofmannsthal's comedy ›The Troublesome. [1967].
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Complete Works. Critical edition. XVII. Dramas 15th edited by Gudrun Kortheimer and Ingeborg Beyer-Ahlert. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
The annoying ones. Swell. Pp. 698-702.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Œuvres complètes de Jean de La Fontaine. Paris 1836. p. 641.
  2. ↑ George Houle: Le Ballet des Fâcheux. Paris 1991. p. 4.
  3. ^ Troupe de Monsieur le Dauphin was the official name of the Molières theater company. Molière au service du Roi. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  4. ^ Wolfram Mauser: Hofmannsthal and Molière. Lecture organized by the “Innsbruck Society for the Care of the Humanities” on February 16, 1962. pp. 6, 7.
  5. ^ Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Complete Works. Critical edition. XII. Dramas. 15. Edited by Gudrun Kortheimer and Ingeborg Beyer-Ahlert. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006. p. 697.
  6. ^ Early English Books. Retrieved April 2, 2016.