Francois Charlemagne Lefevre ( Fr. François-Charlemagne Lefebvre ; April 10, 1775 , Paris - May 23, 1839 , Paris ) - French composer .
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He studied composition and harmony under the guidance of Francois Gossek . From 1794 , he played the viola in the orchestra of the Paris Opera , in 1814, he replaced his father as the chief librarian of the opera (including the organization of copying notes). Simultaneously, from 1810 he worked as a court composer, retaining this position after the restoration of the Bourbons ; from 1816 , the music director of the Royal Guard (in this capacity he wrote a number of compositions for a brass band). Since 1829, retired.
The most notable part of Lefebvre’s composer’s heritage is ballet music written for choreographer Louis Milon : the most famous ballet was The Weddings of Gamash ( fr. Les Noces de Gamache ), based on the novel Don Quixote , first staged in 1801 and retained in the repertoire about 20 years, and later renewed by Lucien Petipa (in Russia this ballet was staged in 1834 by the choreographer A. Blash in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg and in 1835 by the Moscow Bolshoi Theater Felitsaya Gyullen-Sor ). In addition, in 1803 , Lefevre prepared the resumption of the Village Warlock opera by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Paris stage, adding a number of inserted dance numbers to it [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ Adolphe Adam . Souvenirs d'un musicien - Calmann Lévy, 1884. - P. 203. (fr.)
Links
- Lefebvre (François-Charlemagne) // François-Joseph Fétis . Biographie universelle des musiciens. - Paris, 1840. - Tome Sixieme, p. 94. (fr.)