Louis de Cahusac (6 April 1706 – 22 June 1759) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist, and Freemason, most famous for his work with the composer...
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It is the last of his five such works. The libretto, attributed to Louis de Cahusac (1706–1759), is loosely based on the Greek legend of Abaris the Hyperborean...
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Libretto by Louis de Cahusac Extracts:Entr'acte – "Suite des vents", "Nuit redoutable! ... Lieu désolé", "Jouissons, jouissons! Jouissons de nos beaux ans"...
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Encyclopédiste Louis de Cahusac. The French actress and singer Sophie Arnould was one of her students.[citation needed] Emile Campardon, L’Académie Royale de Musique...
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like Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Zoroastre (1749), whose librettist Louis de Cahusac was a Freemason, the masonic music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is among...
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performing Italian arias. When she refused him (and stayed in relation with Louis de Cahusac), Grimm fell into lethargy. Rousseau and abbé Raynal took care of him...
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Encyclopédistes (section Le chevalier de Jaucourt)
214 – Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle 199 – Urbain de Vandenesse 192 – Arnulphe d'Aumont 129 – César Chesneau Du Marsais 119 – Cahusac 108 – Le Roy 107 –...
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1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (d. 1749) 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and composer (d. 1759) 1708 – Johann Georg Reutter...
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June 12 – William Collins, librettist and poet (born 1721) June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706) July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist...
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l'imperioso Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nélée et Myrthis, RCT 50 April 6 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (died 1759) April 24 – Giovanni Battista Martini, violinist...
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name of its librettist is also unknown but may possibly have been Louis de Cahusac. The first known performance of Zéphire did not take place until modern...
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Zoroastre (category Libretti by Louis de Cahusac)
Opéra in the first Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris. The libretto is by Louis de Cahusac. Zoroastre was the fourth of Rameau's tragédies en musique to be staged...
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Austrian silversmith of the late baroque period (d. 1767) April 6 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist (d. 1759) April 18 – William Brattle...
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Zaïs (category Libretti by Louis de Cahusac)
pastorale héroïque in four acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac. The score is particularly remarkable for its overture, which depicts...
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Jean-Philippe Rameau (section Actes de ballet)
librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zaïs (1748)...
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Les beaux jours de l'Amour. The name of the librettist is unknown but it was probably Rameau's frequent collaborator Louis de Cahusac. The original title...
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Temple (directors/screenplay); Jean-Luc Godard (director); Don Boyd, Louis de Cahusac, Philippe Quinault (screenplay); Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly...
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Austrian silversmith of the late baroque period (d. 1767) April 6 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist (d. 1759) April 18 – William Brattle...
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Jean-Baptiste de Hesse (1705–1779) and Franz Anton Hilverding (1710–1768), as well as critic Gasparo Angiolini (1731–1803) and Louis de Cahusac (1700–1759)...
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ballet 1 act Louis de Cahusac 12 October 1754 Fontainebleau, Théâtre du château 30 Anacréon (1754) acte de ballet 1 act Louis de Cahusac 23 October 1754...
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Naïs (category Libretti by Louis de Cahusac)
pastorale héroïque in three acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears...
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player Yannick Cahuzac, French professional football player See also Louis de Cahusac (1706–1759), French playwright and librettist, fellow worker of the...
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Through Jeanne Quinault, Françoise de Graffigny met most of the authors writing in Paris in this era – Louis de Cahusac, Claude Crébillon, Charles Collé...
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as Les Dehors trompeurs by Louis de Boissy, Zénéide by Louis de Cahusac, and La jeune Indienne by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort. According to Le Censeur...
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under the title Anacréon in 1754. The earlier work has a libretto by Louis de Cahusac and a completely different plot. Both are linked by the figure of the...
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on 12 October 1745 at the Opéra, Paris, and is set to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac. The piece was written to celebrate the French victory at the Battle...
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La naissance d'Osiris (category Libretti by Louis de Cahusac)
celebrate the birth of the future King Louis XVI. The libretto is by Rameau's frequent collaborator Louis de Cahusac. Cahusac styled the work a ballet allégorique...
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Louis de Cahusac. The opera was originally composed as part of the celebrations for the Dauphin’s marriage to Maria Josepha of Saxony. Les fêtes de l’Hymen...
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Prometeo Louis de Cahusac (1706–1759) for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon (first Rameau opera by that name), Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour...
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believes the librettist was Louis de Cahusac and Les beaux jours was substantially complete by May 1751. Rameau and Cahusac's Anacréon would also have been...
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