Jean-Paul-Égide Martini
Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, also known as Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (31 August 1741 – 14 February 1816;[n 1]) was a French composer of German birth during the classical period.[1] He is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based. He is often confused with the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Martini, so is sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco ("Martini The German").
Life and career
Martini was born Johann Paul Aegidius Martin in
Basilica of St Denis on 21 January 1816, the anniversary day of the monarch's execution. He died in Paris in February 1816 at the age of 74.[1]
Selected list of works
- Annette and Lubin (opera);
- Sappho (opera, 1794), with libretto by Constance de Pipelet de Leury (i.e. Constance zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck);[2]
- L'amoureux de quinze ans, ou La double fête (1771);
- Henri IV (1774);
- Le Droit du Seigneur (1783);
- Plaisir d'amour, song (1784);
- "Prière pour le Roi", political song (1793);
- Scene héroïque pour Napoléon (1814).
Notes
- ^ Some works of reference give his date of death as 10 February 1816, possibly following François-Joseph Fétis's Biographie universelle des musiciens, p. 303, at Google Books (1840). However the grave certificate Archived 3 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine of Père Lachaise Cemetery clearly shows 14 February as date of death.
References
- ^ a b Bartlet 2001.
- ^ Stanford University. "Sappho". Retrieved 8 March 2017.
Sources
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- "Jean Paul Martini" in Classical Music, ed. John Burrows. DK Publishing, Inc: New York, 2005.
- Faust, Elisabeth (2002). Jean Paul Egide Martini und seine Zeit 1741–1816. Ein Oberpfälzer erlangt Weltruhm. Ausstellungskatalog zum Martini-Festival in Neumarkt (in German). Neumarkt: Katholisches Bildungswerk. OCLC 163889558.
External links
- Free scores by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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