• The Querelle des Bouffons ("Quarrel of the Comic Actors"), also known as the Guerre des Bouffons ("War of the Comic Actors"), was the name given to a battle...
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    not opera buffa), sparked the querelle des bouffons in Paris as an adaptation without sung recitatives. Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian...
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    When it was performed in Paris in 1752, it prompted the so-called Querelle des Bouffons ("quarrel of the comic actors") between supporters of serious French...
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    who favoured Italian opera during the controversy known as the Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. Rameau's music had gone out of fashion by the end...
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    him to compose a new opera, Iphigénie en Aulide. "Mindful of the Querelle des Bouffons between adherents of Italian and French opera, she asked the composer...
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  • an opera buffa that after the death of Pergolesi kicked off the Querelle des Bouffons. In some cases the intermezzo repertory spread more quickly than...
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    new controversy broke out in the 1750s. This was the so-called Querelle des Bouffons, in which supporters of Italian opera, such as the philosopher and...
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    of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona, prompted the Querelle des Bouffons, which pitted protagonists of French music against supporters of...
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    critics who had expressed hostility to his musical style during the Querelle des Bouffons (an argument over the relative merits of French and Italian opera)...
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    appeared in Hamburg between 1737 and 1740. In France in the 1750s, the Querelle des Bouffons (the dispute between supporters of French and Italian opera styles...
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  • the beginning of the classical era The "War of the Buffoons" (La Querelle des Bouffons), concerning the relative merits of French and Italian opera, divides...
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  • attention than the large-scale work to which it was added (see Querelle des Bouffons). Mozart shows his mastery in the finale of the first act of Don...
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  • of representation. Groundling Theater (structure) Public Sphere Querelle des Bouffons Feldman (2007), p. 168. Weber (1997), p. 688. Johnson (1995), p...
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    Premier Double des Niais – Deuxième Double des Niais Les Soupirs. Tendrement La Joyeuse. Rondeau La Follette. Rondeau L'Entretien des Muses Les Tourbillons...
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  • Lesage and Alexis Piron, contributed works in the new form. The Querelle des Bouffons (1752–54), a quarrel between advocates of French and Italian music...
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  • February 9 – The second "Querelle des Bouffons" is sparked when Hector Berlioz criticizes Richard Wagner's music in the Journal des débats. Wagner responds...
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  • première had taken place in Versailles, four years before. During the Querelle des Bouffons, he defended Rameau, whom he greatly admired, and fought a duel...
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  • Rousseau – Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons) Filippo Palma – Sei arie con istromenti, Op. 4 (London: John Johnson)...
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    and materialism. Recurring themes in the discussion include the Querelle des Bouffons (the French/Italian opera battle), education of children, the nature...
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    (1731) Stabat Mater (1736) Septem verba a Christo Related articles Querelle des Bouffons Pergolesi Spontini Foundation Teatro Pergolesi Bella Figura Category...
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    finale its French version provided the catalyst for the infamous Querelle des Bouffons. Part 1 – dressing room Uberto, an elderly bachelor, is angry and...
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    literature and the ideas of Gottsched. In 1752, at the beginning of the Querelle des Bouffons, he wrote Lettre de M. Grimm sur Omphale. Grimm complained that...
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    11) March 1736, a 'prodigious' audience flocked to the theatre. The entrée des Fleurs was "replaced with a version in which the plot and all the music except...
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    1752, performances of the opera buffa La serva padrona led to the Querelle des Bouffons, a debate about the relative superiorities of French and Italian...
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    Rousseau's unrelenting hatred of Rameau, which would lead to the Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. Scene: A prison The Spanish king Alphonse has taken...
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    Gradually these features began to invade established theatres. The Querelle des Bouffons (War of the Clowns), a dispute amongst theatrical factions in Paris...
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  • is a list of articles on general opera topics: Origins of opera Querelle des Bouffons Operas have been written in a diversity of languages with many countries...
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  • Les troqueurs (category Opéras bouffons)
    Since 1752, musical life in Paris had been wracked by the so-called Querelle des Bouffons, an argument between the rival partisans of French and Italian music...
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    pastorale héroïque. The work played an important role in the so-called Querelle des Bouffons, a dispute over the relative merits of the French and Italian operatic...
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    controversy, almost a war, such as has not been seen in Paris since the Querelle des Bouffons. May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France, following the death...
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