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See also:DANIEL See also:FRANCOIS ESPRIT See also:AUBER (1782-1871) , See also:French musical composer, the son of a See also:Paris printseller, was See also:born at See also:Caen in See also:Normandy on the 29th of See also:January 1782 . Destined by his See also:father to the pursuits of See also:trade, he was allowed, nevertheless, to indulge his fondness for See also:music, and learnt to See also:play at an See also:early See also:age on several See also:instruments, his first teacher being the Tirolean composer, I . A . Ladurner . Sent at the age of twenty to See also:London to See also:complete his business training, he was obliged to leave See also:England in consequence of the See also:breach of the treaty of See also:Amiens (1804) . He had already attempted musical See also:composition, and at this See also:period produced several concertos pour basse, in the manner of the violoncellist, Lamarre, in whose name they were published . The praise given to his See also:concerto for the See also:violin, which was played at the See also:Conservatoire by Mazas, encouraged him to undertake the resetting of the old comic See also:opera, Julie (181I) . Conscious by this See also:time of the need of See also:regular study of his chosen See also:art, he placed himself under the severe training of See also:Cherubini, by which the See also:special qualities of the See also:young composer were admirably See also:developed . In 1813 he made his debut in an opera in one See also:act, the Sejour militaire, the unfavourable reception of which put an end for some years to his attempts as composer . But the failure in business and See also:death of his father, in 1819, compelled him once more to turn to music, and to make that which had been his pastime the serious employment of his See also:life . He produced another opera, the Testament et See also:les billets-doux (1819), which was no better received than the former . But he persevered, and the next See also:year was rewarded by the complete success of his Bergere See also:chatelaine, an opera in three acts .
This was the first in a See also:long See also:series of brilliant successes: In 1822 began his long association with A
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See also:Scribe, who shared with him, as librettist, the success and growing popularity of his compositions
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The opera of See also:Leicester, in which they first worked together (1823), is remark-able also as showing evidences of the See also:influence of See also:Rossini
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But his own See also:style was an individual one, marked by lightness and facility, sparkling vivacity, See also:grace and elegance, clear and piquant See also:melody—characteristically French
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In La Muette de See also:Portici, familiarly known as See also:Masaniello, See also:Auber achieved his greatest musical See also:triumph
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Produced at Paris in 1828, it rapidly became a See also:European favourite, and its See also:overture, songs and choruses were everywhere heard
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The See also:duet, " Amour sacre de la patrie," was welcomed like a new Marseillaise; sung by Nourrit at See also:Brussels in 183o, it became the See also:signal for the revolution which See also:broke out there
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Of Auber's remaining operas (about 50 in all) the more important are: Le See also:Macon (1825), La Fiancee (1829), Fra See also:Diavolo (183o), Lestocq (1834), Le Cheval de See also:bronze (1835), L'Ambassadrice (1836), Le Domino noir (1837), Le See also:Lac See also:des fees (1839), Les Diamants de la couronne (1841), Haydee (1847), Marco Spada (1853), Manon Lescaut (1856), and La Fiancee du roi des Garbes (1864)
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See also:Official and other dignities testified the public appreciation of Auber's See also:works
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In 1829 he was elected member of the See also:Institute, in 183o he was named director of the See also:court concerts, and in 1842, at the wish of See also:
See also:Napoleon See also:IIl. made Auber his Imperial Maitre de Chapelle in 1857
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One of Auber's latest compositions was a See also: |
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