See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

ETIENNE See also:

• HENRI

HENRI See also:

• ETIENNE HENRI MEHUL (or ETIENNE NICOLAS) (1763-1817)

MEHUL (or ETIENNE See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS) (1763-1817)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French composer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GIVET

Givet in See also:

• ARDENNES

Ardennes, on the 24th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1763 . His See also:

• FATHER

father being too poor to give him a See also:

• REGULAR

regular musical See also:

• EDUCATION

education, his first ideas of See also:

• ART

art were derived from a poor See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind organist of Givet; yet such was his aptitude that, when ten years old, he was appointed organist of the See also:

• CON

con-vent of the Recollets . In 1775 an able See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German musician and organist, Wilhelm See also:

• HAUSER, KASPAR

Hauser, was engaged for the monastery of Lavaldieu, a few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles from Givet, and See also:

• MEHUL, ETIENNE HENRI (or ETIENNE NICOLAS) (1763-1817)

Mehul became hisoccasional See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil . In 1778 he was taken to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris by a military officer, and placed himself under Edelmann, a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good musician and See also:

• HARPSICHORD, HARPSICON, DOUBLE VIRGINALS (Fr. clavecin; Ger. Clavicymbel, Kiel-Flugel; Ital. arpicordo, cembalo, davicembalo, gravecembalo; Dutch, davisinbal)

harpsichord player . His first attempts at instrumental See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition in 1781 did not succeed, and he therefore turned his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to sacred and dramatic See also:

• MUSIC

music . See also:

• GLUCK

Gluck gave him See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice in his studies . After various disappointments during his efforts for six years to obtain, at the See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

Opera, a See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of his Cora et Alonzo, he offered to the Opera Comique his Euphrosine et Coradin, which, being accepted and performed in 1790, at once fixed his reputation . His opera of Stratonice was also received with See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm in 1792 . After several unsuccessful operas, his Adrien appeared, and added much to his fame, which was further increased by his three best See also:

• WORKS

works, Le Jeune See also:

• HENRI

Henri, Uthal and See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph, the finest of the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series . Uthal was written for an See also:

• ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra without violins . Maul held a See also:

• POST

post as one of the four inspectors of the Paris See also:

• CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire, but this See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office made him feel continually the insufficiency of his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early studies, a want which he endeavoured to remedy by incessant application . See also:

• TIMOLEON (c. 411-337 B.C.)

Timoleon, Ariodant and See also:

• BION

Bion followed .

Epicure was composed by Mehul. and See also:

• CHERUBINI, MARIA LUIGI CARLO ZENOBIO SALVATORE (1760-1842)

Cherubini jointly; but the superiority of the latter was evident . Maul's next opera, L'Irato, failed . After See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing See also:

• FORTY

forty-two operas, besides a number of songs for the festivals of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic, cantatas, and orchestral pieces of various kinds, . his See also:

• HEALTH

health gave way, from an See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection of the See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest, and he died on the . 18th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1817 in Paris . See Lives by Pougin (1889), Viellard (1859), and See also:

• QUATREMERE, ETIENNE MARC (1782-1857)

Quatremere de Quincey (1818) .