Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier

Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier
Born	15 January 1766 Boulogne-sur-Mer
Died	25 May 1824 (aged 58)
Occupation	Dramatist

Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier (15 January 1766 - 25 May 1824) was a French dramatist, nicknamed the Crébillon of melodrama.

He first entered the military career then turned to theatre and was a rival of René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt. From 1793 to 1824, he authored an incredible number of melodramas, dramas, pantomimes, etc. many of wich were met with great success: the number doen't reach less than 110 including the Fille sauvage, the Main de Fer, the Fille mendiante, Jean Sbogar, Machabées, and the Mort de Kleber.

• 1804 : L'Officier cosaque, comedy in 1 act mixed with songs by Charles Dumonchau with Luigi Gianella and Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 9 April
• 1807 : La lanterne de Diogène, pantomime équestre, music arranged by Guillaume Navoigille. Premiered at the opening of the Cirque olympique on 28 December 1807, Paris : Barba, 1808 .
• 1811 : La Petite Nichon, ou La Petite Paysanne de la Moselle, petits tableaux in 1 action and 1 prologue by Pierre Villiers and Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 23 November
• 1814 : Le Vieux de la montagne, ou Les Arabes du Liban, melodrama in 3 acts in prose by Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, music by Louis Alexandre Piccinni, ballet by Rhénon, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 26 December

Sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: (French) "^{article name needed}". Dictionnaire Bouillet.