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    Le devin du village ("The Village Soothsayer") is a one-act French opera (intermède) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who also wrote the libretto. It was the...
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  • 18th century. It originated as a gavotte in the 1752 opera Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The subject of the song...
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    Musical compositions Les Muses galantes [fr] (1743) Les Fetes de Remire (1745) Symphonie à Cors de Chasse (1751) Le Devin du village (1752) – opera in 1...
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  • influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village. Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas...
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    Journal. 91 (3): 225–253. "Pourquoi Le Devin du Village est un pastorale?";[dead link] See also article Le Devin du Village. David Littlefield (1965) "Pomona...
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    genre then prevalent, and specifically as a parody of the opera Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The German libretto is by Friedrich Wilhelm...
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    Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right (French: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique), is a 1762 French-language book by the Genevan...
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    Lane, a translation and adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera Le Devin du village, under the title of The Cunning Man. In 1749, while working as an...
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  • after two years. As early as October 1752 Rousseau presented Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer) at Fontainebleau, and in 1753 in Paris. It was...
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    derived from a French parody, Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne, a work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Le devin du village, 1752. possibly Vienna, October...
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    Rousseau wrote a text for a new one-act opera (intermède), Le devin du village ("The village soothsayer"), about the love of two simple peasants, which...
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    entirely sincere libretto for Handel's Acis and Galatea. Rousseau's Le Devin du village draws on pastoral roots, and Metastasio's libretto Il re pastore...
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    including Monsigny's Le déserteur and Aline, reine de Golconde, Paisiello's L'infante de Zamora, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Le Devin du village, and Piccinni's...
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    Waldegg in 2006, where his ensembles performed and recorded Rousseau's Le Devin du Village and Handel's Apollo e Dafne. They performed a series of Monteverdi's...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who was also an amateur composer, composed an opera, Le devin du village, in 1752. It was of poor quality, but was influential for its introduction...
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  • In 1752, Rousseau produced a short opera influenced by Pergolesi, Le Devin du village, in an attempt to introduce his ideas of musical simplicity and naturalness...
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  • theatre in Les Cayes (1785). The 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake razed the theatre to the ground during a performance of Rousseau's le Devin du Village. Marthe's...
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  • his writings for which he would be known. He wrote the opera Le Devin du Village (The Village Soothsayer) in 1752, which is still performed to this day....
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    Beaumarchais's play Le mariage de Figaro (1784), which ends with a vaudeville, and at the latter, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Le devin du village (1752), which...
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  • Mozart). Mozart's one-act Singspiel was set to a parody of Rousseau's Le devin du village. 1770 Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart). Composed when Mozart was 14...
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    equivalents of the characters in Favart's [Les Amours de] Bastien et Bastienne or Rousseau's Le Devin du Village. The ‘opérette’ was first performed on 1...
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    of Italian music, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, produced a short opera, Le Devin du village, in an attempt to introduce his ideals of musical simplicity and...
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    Daphnis et Alcimadure by Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and Colin in Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In 1755, he retired from the Opéra, singing...
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  • Jommelli – I rivali delusi (intermezzo) Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons) Filippo...
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  • Alexander Ablesimov, Moscow, 1779), on a subject resembling Rousseau’s Le Devin du village, is attributed to a theatre violin player and conductor Mikhail Matveyevich...
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  • du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Flute: Lucien Lavaillotte, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Pathé DTX 243 (LP) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Le devin du village...
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    a matchmaker, Moscow, 1779), on a subject resembling Rousseau’s Le devin du village: it is possible that this was his revision of the music compiled...
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    Reine de Chypre (Fromental Halévy) with Hervé Niquet, 2018; Colin in Le Devin du Village (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) with Sébastien d'Hérin, recorded at Versailles...
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  • Saint-Amans (Ninette à la Cour 1791) Menuet - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Le Devin du Village 1748) Tamburin - André Ernest Modeste Grétry (Aspasie 1789) Sarabande...
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    Editors not stated (1789). Abrégé du Journal de Paris: ou Recueil des Articles les plus intéressans insérés dans le Journal, depuis son origine, & rangés...
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