Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin

Jean -Baptiste Weckerlin ( born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, † May 20 1910 in Trott mountain in Guebwiller ) was a French composer and music publisher.

Weckerlin studied at the Paris Conservatory, Jacques Fromental Halévy among others. From 1850 to 1885 he was conductor of the " Société Sainte -Cécile " from 1863 and archivist of the " Société de Musique of Composers ". From 1876 to 1909 he was head of the library of the Paris Conservatoire.

Works

He composed a total of 20 stage works, operas, operettas and operas in two Colmar dialect, as well as numerous choral works and songs. He was editor of several anthologies of French folk songs, he published a "Histoire de l' Intrumentation " and wrote a catalog of the ligand is located in the library of the Conservatoire works.

• Après Fontenoy ou à Some some. Comic opera in one act 1877 Paris ( Théâtre - Lyrique UA ).
• Chansons populaires de l'Alsace. Edition Gyss, Schirmeck 1984, ISBN 2-902912-37-4 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1883).
• Di dreyfach Hochzitt em Bäsathal. Does not light 's Opärettla s 3 Actä. Colmar 1860 ( libretto by Jean Thomas Mangold ).
• La Laitière de Trianon. Operetta in one act
• L' Organiste dans l' embarras. Comic opera in one act 1853 Paris ( Théâtre - Lyrique UA )
• Les Revenants bretons. Opéra de Paris salon in one act 1855 (UA Salle heart).
• D'r verhaxt ' fall. Lustoperettla uf Colmarditsch s 4 acts. Sutter, Rixheim 1907 ( libretto by Jean Thomas Mangold ).
• Tout est bien qui finit bien. Opéra de Paris salon 1 act 1856 ( libretto by William Shakespeare free ).

• Jean -Baptiste Lully: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Comédie -ballet en 5 actes. Durand, Paris 184 ( libretto by Molière ).
• Christoph Willibald von Gluck: La rencontre imprévue ou les pélerins de la Mecque. Opéra comique. Legouix, Paris 1920 ( libretto by Florent Carton Dancourt )