Louis-Armand Chardin
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Louis-Armand Chardin, called Chardiny (1755 – 1 October 1793) was an 18th-century French composer.
Biography
Born in
Chardin was a composer, and we know of him several small operas that he wrote for the Théâtre Beaujolais , such as: le Pouvoir de la nature, in one act, 1786; la Ruse d’amour, in one act, 1786; le Clavecin, 1787; Clitandre et Céphise, 1788. In 1787 he had l’Anneau perdu et retrouvé performed at the Comédie-Italienne. He is also known for the music of a melodrama entitled: Annette et Basile.
Chardin was one of the first to set music to
It is also necessary to add to the list of his dramatic productions l'Amant sculpteur,
Few people, wrote the editor of the Almanach des Spectacles, were in a better condition than this artist to work for this show: the vaudeville was his favorite genre, and he was made to enrich his theatre with a multitude of tunes, which the authors have put everywhere, and which are in everyone's mouth.
This job did not prevent Chardin from continuing to be part of the Opera staff, but it did give him the ability to place a relative, perhaps his brother, J. Chardin, in the orchestra of Vaudeville, where he played the cello
Having warmly embraced the party of the Revolution, Chardin was captain of an armed company of the section de Marat when he died at age thirty-seven.
Five days after his death, the vaudevillist Piis sent these verses about Chardin to the Journal des Spectacles :
- Opera loses a good artist,
- Music, a good harmonist,
- Vaudeville a good supporter,
- The god Comus a good guest;
- But what causes everyone a more severe pain,
- The Republic, in him, loses a good citizen.
Sources
- François-Joseph Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1881, (p. 170).
References
- Gallica
External links
- Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin, dit Chardiny on Gallica