Mélesville

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Mélesville , actually Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier (born December 13, 1787 in Paris , † November 7, 1865 in Marly-le-Roi , Yvelines department ) was a French playwright and lawyer.

Life

Mélesville was a son of the writer Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier and his wife Adélaïde Marie Lespardat; his half-brother was Charles Duveyrier.

Mélesville studied at the Sorbonne Law and worked upon successful completion some time as a lawyer. During his studies he wrote smaller works and in 1811 he made his very successful debut with his piece L'oncle rival . When he was able to repeat this success, he gave up his job in 1814 and devoted himself only to writing.

Mélesville died five weeks before his 78th birthday on November 7, 1865 in Marly-le-Roi and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Div. 35).

reception

As the writing of theater plays was not very popular, published all of his works under his pseudonym out of consideration for his family . His oeuvre includes almost 350 titles and ranges from vaudevilles and comedies to serious dramas and melodrama .

Many of his plays were created in collaboration with colleagues such as Jean-François Bayard , Nicolas Brazier , Pierre Carmouche , Théophile Marion Dumersan , Léon Laya , Antoine-François Varner and Emmanuel Théaulon . One of his works, which he wrote together with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson and Eugène Scribe , appeared under the collective pseudonym Amédée de Saint-Marc . Mélesville wrote some libretti for the composers Adolphe Adam and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber .

Works (selection)

  • Le bourgmestre de Saardam ou les deux Pierre. Comédie en 3 actes . Paris 1818 (with Jean Toussaint Merle; music by Nicolas Albert Schaffner; ballet by Jean-Baptiste Blanche)
  • Le confident. Vaudeville en 1 acte . Paris 1823 (with Eugène Scribe)
  • Le vieux mari. Comédie-vaudeville en two actes . Paris 1828.
  • Les memoires d'un colonel de hussards. Comédie en 1 acte . Paris 1831.
  • Deux-Ânes. Vaudeville en un acte . Paris 1842 (with Pierre Carmouche).
  • Sarah, or: The Orphan of Glencoe . Romantic opera in 2 acts. Music: Wilhelm Telle , Leipzig 1845
  • Le Sopha. Conte phantastique en trois actes . Paris 1850 (together with Eugène Labiche and Charles Desnoyer).
  • Le portrait vivant .
  • Elle est folle . Paris
    • She is insane. Drama in two acts . Bloch, Berlin 1867.
  • Le coucher du soleil . Paris
    • After sunset. Comedy in one act . Reclam, Leipzig 1880 (translated by Louis Angely ).
  • Le lac des fées . Paris (with Eugène Scribe; music by DEF Auber).
    • The fairy lake. Great romantic opera with dance in five acts . Fashion, Berlin 1879.
  • Le secretaire et le cuisinier . Paris
    • The secretair and the cook. Comedy in one act . Reclam, Leipzig 1880 (translated by Carl Blum ).
  • La chat métamorphosée en femme . Paris 1828 (together with Eugène Scribe).
    • The transformed cat. Song play in one act . Berlin 1902.
  • L'oncle rival. Vaudeville en un acte . Paris 1830.
  • The uncle as a rival. Comedy in one act . Hayn, Berlin 1835.

literature

  • Heinz Kindermann : Theater history of Europe, Vol. 9.2: France, Russia, England, Scandinavia . O. Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1970.
  • Louis Gustave Vapereau (ed.): Dictionnaire universel des littératures . Hachette, Paris 1836, p. 687.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First performance in Paris, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin , July 2, 1818. Original for the operas Il borgomastro di Saardam ( Gaetano Donizetti , Naples 1827) and Tsar and Zimmermann ( Albert Lortzing , 1837).
  2. ^ First performance in Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell .
  3. ^ First performance in Paris, May 2, 1828.
  4. ↑ First performance Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, February 21, 1822.
  5. ^ First performance in Paris, Théatre du Palais Royal , February 5, 1842.
  6. ^ First performance in Paris Théâtre du Palais Royal , July 18, 1850.
  7. ^ First performance Paris, Théâtre du Madame , March 3, 1827.
  8. ↑ First performance, Paris Théâtre du Gymnase, December 14, 1830.
personal data
SURNAME Mélesville
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duveyrier, Anne-Honoré Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1865
Place of death Marly-le-Roi , Yvelines department