Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Étienne Nicolas Méhul (22 Jun 1763–18 Oct 1817), Find a Grave Memorial no. The only important opera to emerge from this decade was Joseph (1807), probably his greatest.
Étienne Nicolas Méhul, né à Givet (), le 22 juin 1763 et mort à Paris le 18 octobre 1817, est un compositeur français, « le plus important compositeur d’opéras en France pendant la Révolution ».
He was convinced that musical expressiveness is a lovely flower, delicate and rare, of exquisite fragrance, which does not bloom without culture, and which a breath can wither; that it does not dwell in melody alone, but that everything concurs either to create or destroy it – melody, harmony, modulation, rhythm, instrumentation, the choice of deep or high registers for the voices or instruments, a quick or slow tempo, and the several degrees of volume in the sound emitted.One way in which Méhul increased dramatic expressivity was to experiment with orchestration. Interviewed 8 November 2010 on the on Cf. Étienne Nicolas Méhul (French: ; 22 June 1763 – 18 October 1817) was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution".
Although Méhul's works are seldom performed today, his influence on List of choral works. Méhul turned to a series of minor comedies over the next years. Born: 22 Jun 1763 Died: 18 Oct 1817 Biography. Méhul was the greatest French symphonist before He led the generation of composers who emerged in France in the 1790s, which included his friend and rival
After this, Méhul turned to symphonic composition for a brief time, producing two extraordinarily successful works in 1808-09, and a series of Napoleonic cantatas (1810-1811). footnote 41 of the Preface by David Charlton in his critical edition of the score of the G minor symphony published by
Etienne Méhul Méhul was the greatest French symphonist before Berlioz and an important and prolific composer of opéras comiques. His opera Les amazones (1811) failed, however, and Méhul, disenchanted with the fall of the First Empire and the reorganization of the Conservatoire, produced no other major works until the successful La journée aux aventures in 1816. Music teacher, Organist, Composer, Performer, Arranger View the Wikipedia article on Etienne Nicolas Méhul.. Méhul's only important teacher was Hör' uns, Herr!
Aliases: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, Étienne Henry Méhul, Etienne-Henri Méhul, Etienne Nicolas Mehül, E. N. Méhul Life. Méhul's main musical concern was that everything should serve to increase the dramatic impact. For example, in Around 1800, the popularity of such stormy dramas began to wane, replaced by a fashion for the lighter Besides operas, Méhul composed a number of songs for the festivals of the republic (often commissioned by the emperor Napoleon), Mehul's First Symphony (1808) is notable for its dissonant and violent mood, and has been compared to A fifth symphony was never completed—"as disillusionment and tuberculosis took their toll", in the words of David Charlton.
7762, citing Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France ; Maintained by Find A Grave . It premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 5 December 1795.The libretto, by Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, is based on incidents from the novel Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage.. Méhul's opera enjoyed only limited success, with 22 performances. After this, Méhul turned to symphonic composition for a brief time, producing two extraordinarily successful works in 1808-09, and a series of Napoleonic cantatas (1810-1811). La caverne (The Cavern) is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul.It takes the form of a comédie en prose in three acts.
Méhul turned to a series of minor comedies over the next years. He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic". 3 and 4 were only rediscovered by Charlton in 1979. In 1778 or 1779 he went to Paris and began to study with In 1787, the writer Valadier offered Méhul one of his libretti, Méhul's operatic success was not as great in the first decade of the nineteenth century as it had been in the 1790s, although works such as In 1797 Méhul adopted his seven-year-old nephew, composer Méhul's most important contribution to music was his operas. The Symphonies Nos.
As his admirer Berlioz wrote:[Méhul] was fully convinced that in truly dramatic music, when the importance of the situation deserves the sacrifice, the composer should not hesitate as between a pretty musical effect that is foreign to the scenic or dramatic character, and a series of accents that are true but do not yield any surface pleasure.