François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer...

André Danican Philidor may refer to: François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), chess master and composer André Danican Philidor the elder (c. 1647–1730)...

The opening is named after the famous 18th-century player François-André Danican Philidor, who advocated it as an alternative to the common 2...Nc6....

This is a list of the complete operas of the French composer François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795). One of the early masters of the opéra comique...

One of them (François-André Danican Philidor) was a chess master. Michel Danican Philidor the elder (1580–1651) Michel Danican Philidor the younger (c...

and mating with the knight. The technique is named after François-André Danican Philidor; this is something of a misnomer, however, as it is earlier...

It was analyzed by François-André Danican Philidor in 1777. Many rook and pawn versus rook endgames reach either the drawn Philidor position or the winning...

18th-century French player François-André Danican Philidor was "supposed to be the best Chess-player in the world". Philidor wrote an extremely successful...

of opéra comique, by the French composer and chess champion François-André Danican Philidor which first appeared at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, on 27...

dealing with the various winning combinations was written by François-André Danican Philidor of France, regarded as the best chess player in the world for...

article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In 1749 François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) published a position in which the superior side...

André Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Leopold Mozart, Michael Haydn, Giovanni Paisiello, Johann Baptist Wanhal, François-André Danican Philidor, Niccolò...

sessions at Versailles, demands increased for a match with François-André Danican Philidor, who was considered the best chess player of his time. Moving...

Paul Morphy François-André Danican Philidor (who often met with Benjamin Franklin) Alexandre Deschapelles Legall de Kermeur (Philidor's teacher) Jules...

some pawnless endgames goes back centuries by players such as François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719–1796). On the...

André Danican Philidor the elder [French: l'aîné] (c. 1652, Versailles – 11 August 1730, Dreux), a member of the Philidorit family of French musicians...

recording many games of his own and of other players, including François-André Danican Philidor, the leading master of his time, left a valuable historical...

century, including music written by Georg Benda, Ignaz Pleyel, François-André Danican Philidor, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner...

Persée (Perseus) is an opera by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris...

Jean Danican (D'Anican) Philidor (c. 1620 – September 8, 1679) was a court musician at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIII, and a member of the...

Cobbler) is a 1759 one-act opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor. The libretto was by Michel-Jean Sedaine, after a story by...

Miss Davis (c. 1726 – after 1755) Karl Kohaut (1726–1784) François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) Joseph Starzer (c. 1726–1787) Joseph Anton Steffan...

(1590), Gioachino Greco (c. 1625), Joseph Bertin (1735), and François-André Danican Philidor (1749). The first author to attempt a comprehensive survey...

piece already captured, e.g. the rules published in 1749 by François-André Danican Philidor. In the 19th century, this restriction was lifted, which allowed...

based on the life of Themistocles Thémistocle (1785), opera by François-André Danican Philidor based on the life of Themistocles. In the movie The 300 Spartans...

Composers for the company during this period included Egidio Duni, François-André Danican Philidor and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. The dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine...

Louis-August Papavoine (1761) Herne le chasseur, music by François-André Danican Philidor, libretto by Douin (1773) Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor,...

des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical genre, the...

White having the first move is much more recent than that. François-André Danican Philidor in the original (1749) edition of his famous treatise Analyse...

after François-André Danican Philidor Philidor Variation of the Bishop's Opening – 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.c3 – named after François-André Danican Philidor Pirc...