Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer)

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne or Moyne (3 April 1751 – 30 December 1796) was a French composer, chiefly of operas.

Born in Eymet, Dordogne, he first worked as a musician in Berlin and Warsaw, where in 1775 he produced his first opera, Le bouquet de Colette, starring his pupil Antoinette de Saint-Huberty (née Clavel). He returned to France and wrote the tragic opera Électre, which received its premiere in 1782. Lemoyne claimed his music was following the example of Christoph Willibald von Gluck, then the greatest influence on French opera, but when Électre failed Gluck rejected any association with the younger composer. Lemoyne turned to Gluck's rivals, Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, as musical models for his next two tragedies, Phèdre (1786) and the Egyptian-set Nephté (1789), which had more success. His later operas are less important. He died in Paris.[1][2]

Operas

References

  1. Rushton in Grove
  2. 1 2 Viking, p. 562
  3. Title page of published libretto
  4. Original edition of the libretto
  5. Viking, p. 582
  6. Darlow, p. 59
  7. Title page of 1796 edition
  8. André Tissier, Volume 2, p.63 for the name of the librettist
  9. Title page of the published score
  10. Darlow p. 214
  11. Kennedy, p. 170
  12. 1 2 Darlow, p. 326
  13. Kennedy, p. 266
  14. Date from André Tissier, Volume 2, p. 103
  15. André Tissier, Volume 2, p. 104
  16. Kennedy, p. 162

Sources

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