Victorin de Joncières

Victorin de Joncières (real name Félix-Ludger Rossignol ; born April 12, 1839 in Paris , † October 26, 1903 there ) was a French composer and music critic.

Life

Joncières completed his school days at the Lycée Bonaparte . He then became a student of Antoine Elie Elwart and Simon Leborne at the Paris Conservatory , but left the institute as a result of a dispute with Leborne over Richard Wagner , one of whose admirers he was.

On the occasion of the world premiere of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on July 21, 1868, he traveled to Munich ( court theater ) and vigorously represented Wagner's cause as a music advisor (for the newspaper Liberté ).

Joncières' direction was the most modern of its time, but according to contemporary judgments, his works lack the purity of style.

Honors

Knight of the Legion of Honor (February 8, 1877)

Works (selection)

Operas

Sardanapal ( libretto by Henry Becque based on Lord Byron's eponymous tragedy).
Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi (Libretto by Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaume , freely based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Last Days of Pompeii ).
Dimitri (libretto by Henri de Bornier and Alexandre Silvestre , freely based on Friedrich von Schiller's Demetrius ).
La Reine Berthe (libretto by Jules Barbier ).
John of Lorraine (Le Chevalier Jean; libretto by Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau ).
Lancelot du Lac (libretto by Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau).

Other works

Hamlet. Music de scene .
Symphonie romantique . (Premiere Paris, March 9, 1873)
Concerto pour violon . (Premiere Paris, December 12, 1869)
La Mer, or symphonique . (Premiere 1881)

literature

Adolphe Bitard: Joncières, Victorin de . In: Ders .: Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère . Vanier, Paris 1880.
François-Joseph Fétis: Joncières, Victorin de . In: Ders .: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique . Édition Culture & Civilization, Brussels 1972 (unchanged reprint of the Paris edition 1874).
Joncières, Victorin . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 15 : Italy - Kyshtym . London 1911, p. 497 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Major works on operons

Cormac Newark: Joncières, Victorin de . In: Oxford Music Online .

Individual evidence

↑ First performance Théâtre-Lyrique , Paris, February 8, 1867
↑ First performance Théâtre-Lyrique , Paris, September 21, 1869.
↑ First performance Théâtre de la Gaîté , Paris, May 5, 1876.
^ First performance Opéra de Paris , December 27, 1878.
^ First performance Opéra-Comique , Paris, March 11, 1885.
^ First performance Opéra de Paris, February 7, 1900.
↑ First performance at Théâtre Graslin , Nantes, September 21, 1867.

personal data
SURNAME	Joncières, Victorin de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rossignol, Félix-Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French composer and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1903
Place of death	Paris

[1] First performance Théâtre-Lyrique , Paris, February 8, 1867

[2] First performance Théâtre-Lyrique , Paris, September 21, 1869.

[3] First performance Théâtre de la Gaîté , Paris, May 5, 1876.

[4] First performance Opéra de Paris , December 27, 1878.

[5] First performance Opéra-Comique , Paris, March 11, 1885.

[6] First performance Opéra de Paris, February 7, 1900.

[7] First performance at Théâtre Graslin , Nantes, September 21, 1867.