Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
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Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a
Jean Nicolas Bouilly
Pierre Gaveaux
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Pierre Gaveaux was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal, the first operatic version of the s
Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
…Comédie Italienne, 31 December read online 1798: Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal, historical fact in 2 acts and in prose mingled with songs, music by Pierre Gaveaux, created at the Théâtre Feydeau 19 February Read online The play formed the basis for the libretto which Ludwig van Beethoven used for the opera Fidelio…
Pierre Gaveaux Portrait by Edmé Quenedey after a physionotrace (1821).