Charles Simon Favart

Charles Simon Favart ( born November 13, 1710 in Paris, † May 12 1792 in Belleville ) was a French opera and comedy writer.

Life

Favart came from a family of craftsmen; his father was a pastry chef. During his school years at the College Louis le Grand, he began to write. His debut with " La France par la Pucelle d' Orléans delivree " ( a poem about Joan of Arc ) was very successful. When he was then also awarded floraux in the aligned by the Académie des Jeux Jeux Floraux, he devoted himself to just writing.

On December 12, 1745 Favart married actress Marie Duronceray and had with her ​​a son, the future actor and writer Charles -Nicolas Favart. In winter 1745/46 of Marshal Saxe, Hermann Maurice of Saxony Favart and his wife took them under contract and they followed him along with a whole ensemble to Brussels.

Later Favart and his family returned to Paris. Your livelihood they deserved both as an actor and as a writer of plays. This Favart designed almost exclusively for the Opéra -Comique and wrote it either with his wife or with Claude -Henri de Fusée de Vosenon. That's why nowadays can hardly be distinguished between his or her in an original work.

Between 1759 and 1770 acted Favart also a correspondent of the Vienna Court and was at that time a member of the Société de la table ronde. When his wife Marie on April 22, 1772, died, dried up his creative power. Around 1780 he retired to Belleville (now in Paris ) and died there also almost forgot on May 12, 1792.

Trivia

Jacques Offenbach, the poet-composer and his wife with the Opéra -Comique Madame Favart set a musical monument.

Works (selection)

The literary work Favart counts numerous comedies and operettas, all of which are held in the rococo style and mostly rural scenes ( pastoral poetry ) like drawing from nature. Addition, however, are some anecdotes in which he had built at the fabliaux of the Middle Ages.

  • Annette et Lubin.
  • L' astrologue de village.
  • Bastien et Bastienne ( known today by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne ).
  • Ninette à la cour.
  • Les trois Sultanes.
  • L' Anglais à Bordeaux.
  • Théatre. Slatkine, Geneva, 1971 ( 5 vols Nachdr d ed Paris 1763/72 )
  • ' Théatre choisi. Vanraest, Paris 1810 (8 vols ).
  • Choisies oeuvre. Didot, Paris 1813 ( 3 vols )
  • Mémoires. Paris 1809 ( 3 vols in his Correspondance ).
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