Louis Granier

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Louis Granier (* 1740 in Toulouse ; † 1800 there ) was a French violinist and composer .

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Louis Granier's first job was that of Kapellmeister at the Bordeaux Opera . In 1764 his arrangement of the Tancrède by André Campra was performed at the Académie royale de musique in Paris . In 1765 he was in Brussels, where a setting of Racine's Athalie was successfully performed. From 1766 Garnier was in Paris, first as a violinist in the orchestra of the opera and as "maitre de musique" in the service of Prince Karl Alexander of Lorraine . From 1770 to 1773 he had an engagement as music director of the theater of Toulouse and his wife that of the "Première Danseuse". Then the couple went back to Paris, where he became first violinist in the “Chapelle du Roi” and from 1775 in the same position in the Concert Spirituel . At the Académie royale de musique he worked from 1777 to 1778 as assistant to the director. Louis Granier composed several operas, partly together with Pierre Montan Berton and Jean-Claude Trial . In 1786 he retired to his hometown of Toulouse, where he died in 1800.

A frequently mentioned relationship with the composer and cellist François Granier is not considered certain.

Works

  • Choirs for Racines Athalie (1765, Brussels)
  • Théonis, ou Le Toucher (1767, Paris Théâtre de l'Opéra)
  • Médée et Jason, ballet pantomime, in collaboration with Pierre-Montan Berton and Jean-Claude Trial (1767)
  • Les caprices de Galathée, ballet (revised 1776)
  • Annette et Lubin, Ballet (1778, lost)
  • Arrangement by André Campras Tancrède (1764, Paris Théâtre de l'Opéra)
  • Adaptation of Marin Marais' Alcione (1771, Paris Théâtre de l'Opéra)
  • Arrangement of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Bellérophon (1773, in Versailles)
  • Adaptation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thésée (1779 Paris Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Instrumental

  • Sonates et Airs et violon (lost according to Fétis)
  • Sonates pour la flûte (1785)
  • Oeuvres de quatuors pour la harpe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (1866)
personal data
SURNAME Granier, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH 1800
Place of death Toulouse