Henri-Louis Blanchard

Henri-Louis Blanchard
Born 7 February 1778
Bordeaux
Died 18 September 1858(1858-09-18) (aged 80)
Paris
Occupation playwright, composer, violonist, music critic.

Henri-Louis Blanchard (7 February 1778 – 18 December 1858) was a French playwright, composer, violonist and music critic.

Biography

The son of a violonist, he studied with Franz Beck in Bordeaux, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Méhul and Reicha at the Conservatoire de Paris. [1] As soon as 1836, he participated, among numerous publications, at the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in which he published his essais biographiques [2] until 1856[3]

Conductor of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1824 to 1829, he took part as librettist to some plays presented at the Théâtre-Français and also composed for the Théâtre du Gymnase or the Théâtre du Vaudeville more than three hundred melodies. He also put into music most of the texts by the poet Béranger [4] He also wrote romances, canons for four, six and eight voices, duets for violin, viola quartets, concertos, a fugue for three violins, a fantasy for harp and violin etc.

In 1830 he became managing director of the Théâtre de Molière, a position he would keep until he died in 1858.

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Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ L'Orgue n°221-224, 1992, p.16
  2. ↑ Franz Beck, un musicien des Lumières, 2004, p.12
  3. ↑ Robert Ignatius Letellier, The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 2002, p.205
  4. ↑ Léger Noël, La clef de la langue et des sciences, 1861, p.266
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