Pierre-Louis Moline
Pierre-Louis Moline (c. 1740 – 20 March 1820)Gluck's Orphée et Euridice (a reworked version of his Orfeo ed Euridice).
Biography
Moline was born in
Orphée et Euridice (1774) and Jean-Frédéric Edelmann's Ariane dans l'isle de Naxos (1782).[2] Moline also collaborated with Gluck on his 1775 revision of L'arbre enchanté, a one-act opéra comique, which had premiered in Vienna at the Schönbrunn Palace in 1759.[2][3]
During the French Revolution he served as a secretary-clerk to the National Convention and wrote several patriotic theatrical pieces, including his most famous work of this type, La Réunion du six août. Moline died in Paris, leaving no known heirs.
Julian Rushton, writing in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, says of Moline: "With deplorable fecundity, he contributed to every fashionable stage genre, including tragedy, comedy of manners, bourgeois drama and Revolutionary sans-culottide."[2]
Works
Libretti
- Orphée et Eurydice – opera set by Gluck, 1774
- L'arbre enchanté – revised version of 1775, adapted from the original libretto set by Gluck in 1759[3]
- Cythère assiégée – (with Favart) opera set by Gluck, 1775
- Roger Bontems et Javotte – (with Louis Archambault Dorvigny) comédie mêlée d'ariettes (parody of Orphée et Eurydice), 1775
- La Résurrection – oratorio set by Méreaux, 1780
- Jephthe – oratorio set by Vogel, 1781
- L'arche d'alliance davant Jérusalem – oratorio set by Gossec, 1781
- La morte d'Absalon – oratorio set by Joseph Lenoble 1782
- Les fureurs de Saül – oratorio set by Giroust, 1786
- Le triomphe d'Alcide à Athènes : drame héroïque en deux actes, mêlé de chants et de danses – set by Francesco Bianchi, given at Théâtre Molière, September 1806
Plays
- Thémistocle – tragedy in five acts, 1766
- La Réunion du six août, ou l'Inauguration de la République française – (with Gabriel Bouquier), mêlée de déclamations in five acts, 1794
- Le premier navigateur – comedy in three acts, published 1807
- L'amour anglais – comedy in three acts, 1788
References
Notes
Sources
- Brown, Bruce Alan (1992). "Arbre enchanté, L'" in Sadie 1992, vol. 1, p. 163.
- Johnson, James H. (1996). Listening in Paris: A Cultural History, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20648-7
- Mahul, Alphonse, editor (1823). "Moline, Pierre-Louis", Annuaire nécrologique, ou Supplément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnaires historiques, Baudouin frères.
- Pitou, Spire (1985). The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313243943.
- Ribner, Jonathan P. (1993). Broken Tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07749-0.
- Rushton, Julian (1992). "Moline, Pierre-Louis" in Sadie 1992, vol. 3, p. 425.
- ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
- Smither, Howard E. (1977). A History of the Oratorio, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1274-9
External links
- Fayolle (1843). "Moline (Pierre-Louis)" in Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne. Supplément, vol. 74 (MEU—MOZ). Paris: L.-G. Michaud. Copy at the Internet Archive.
- Hoefer, J.-C.-F., editor (1861). "Moline (Pierre-Louis)" in Nouvelle biographie générale, vol. 35 (Mérat – Monnier). Paris: Didot Frères. Copies 1 & 2 at the Internet Archive.
- Pierre-Louis Moline on data.bnf.fr