Louis Clapisson

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Louis Clapisson
Naples, Italy
Died19 March 1866(1866-03-19) (aged 57)
Paris, France
Occupations
  • composer
  • violinist

Louis Clapisson (15 September 1808 – 19 March 1866) was a French composer and violinist. He composed numerous

Paris Conservatory and the curator of the conservatory's museum of musical instruments, many of which had come from his own large collection.[1]

Life and career

Clapisson's family was originally from

Théâtre-Italien and later as second violinist in the Paris Opera orchestra.[2][3]

However, Clapisson soon decided to devote himself to composition instead. His first compositions were vocal pieces (quartets and duets) which were performed at the Paris Conservatory concert series from 1835. His first operatic work was La Figurante, a five-act opéra comique to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Henri Dupin. It premiered on 24 August 1838. Twenty-one more would follow, almost all in the opéra comique genre, although he did produce one grand opera, Jeanne la folle, which premiered at the Paris Opera in 1848. His last work was an operetta, La Poularde de Caux. It was co-written with five other composers and premiered in 1861, the same year he was appointed professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory. His most successful works were the opéras comiques La Promise (1854) and La Fanchonnette (1856).[1][3][4] His contemporary, Gustave Chouquet, wrote:

[Clapisson's] style is somewhat bombastic and deficient in genuine inspiration; but, in almost every one of his operas there are to be found graceful and fluent tunes, fine harmonies, pathetic passages, and characteristic effects of orchestration.[1]

Clapisson was made

Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1847 and elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1854. In addition to his activity as a composer, Clapisson built up a notable collection of antique musical instruments which he sold to the French government in 1861. The collection was housed in the Paris Conservatory's museum which officially opened in 1864 with Clapisson as its first curator, a position he held until his death two years later.[5][6]

Clapisson died suddenly in Paris at the age of 57, survived by his wife Marie Catherine née Bréard and their two sons.

French National Guard.[5][2]

Marcel Proust refers to him in his In Search of Lost Time.[7]

Selected recordings

  • Aria from opera Gibby la cornemuse, Act I: Romance du sommeil. "Rêvons qu'un plus beau jour" , with aria from Le Code noir, Act III: Romance. "Non, vous n'aurez pas… Adieu, toi ma pauvre mère" (Donatien). tenor
    Orchestre National de Lille
    cond. Pierre Dumoussaud, Alpha 2023

Notes

  1. ^ Clapisson and Marie Catherine Bréard were married in 1836. She was the granddaughter of Jean-Jacques Bréard.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Chouquet, Gustave (1900). "Clapisson, Antoine Louis" in George Grove (ed.) A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 1, p. 360. MacMillan & Co.
  2. ^
    ISBN 2252030860
  3. ^ a b Almanach de la musique (Supplément: Nécrologie des Musiciens) (1867). "Clapisson, Antoine-Louis", pp. 12–14. Alfred Iklemer et Cie. (in French)
  4. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performances of works by Louis Clapisson". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  5. ^ a b Heugel, Jacques-Léopold (25 March 1866). "Nécrologie: Louis Clapisson". Le Ménestrel, 33e Année, No 17, p. 133 (in French)
  6. ^ Philharmonie de Paris. "Histoire du Musée". Retrieved 4 May 2017 (in French).
  7. OCLC 26211992
    .

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