Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac, known as Nicolas Dalayrac (born June 8, 1753 in Muret

Muret

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, Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne

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, France

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; died November 26, 1809, in Paris

Paris

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), was a French composer

Composer

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, best known for his opéras-comiques

Opéra-Comique

The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the...

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Biography

Trained as a lawyer, Dalayrac was encouraged by his father to abandon his career and follow his passion for music. His earliest works were violin duets, string trios and quartets, but his main fame was as a prolific composer of operas for the Comédie-Italienne (later remamed the Opéra-Comique). He was a Freemason and is said to have composed the music for the induction of Voltaire

Voltaire

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 to his lodge. He married the actress Gilberte Pétronille Sallarde. After the French Revolution

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 he changed his name from the aristocratic d'Alayrac to Dalayrac. In 1804, he received the Légion d'honneur

Légion d'honneur

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1780–1789

• Le chevalier à la mode (1781)
• Le petit souper (1781)
• L'éclipse totale (1782)
• L'amant statue
  L'amant statue
  L'amant statue is an opera in one act by composer Nicolas Dalayrac with a French libretto by Fouques Desfontaines. The opera premiered at the Palace of Fontainebleau on August 4, 1785 in the presence of King Louis XVI of France.-Roles:-Discography:...
  
  (1785)
• La dot (1785)
• Nina, ou La folle par amour
  Nina (Dalayrac)
  Nina, ou La folle par amour is an opera in one act by the French composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on 15 May 1786...
  
  (1786)
• Azémia (2 parties, 1786)
• Renaud d'Ast (1787)
• Sargines (1788)
• Fanchette (1788)
• Les deux petits Savoyards
  Les deux petits savoyards
  Les deux petits savoyards is a comic opera in one act by the French composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on January 14, 1789. The libretto is by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières. The opera was a great success; according to the records of the...
  
  (1789), libretto by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, first performance by Les Comédiens ordinaires du Roi, 14 January 1789.
• Raoul, sire de Créqui (1789)

1790–1799

• La soirée orageuse (1790)
• Le chêne patriotique (1790)
• Vert-Vert (1790)
• Camille ou Le souterrain (1791)
• Agnès et Olivier (1791)
• Philippe et Georgette (1791)
• Tout pour l'amour (1792)
• Ambroise (1793)
• Asgill (2 parties, 1793)
• La prise de Toulon (1794)
• Le congrès des rois
  Le congrès des rois
  Le congrès des rois was a 3-act French Revolutionary opera of the genre comédie mêlée d'ariettes with a libretto by De Maillot, a stage name used by Antoine-François Ève early in his career, and music by a collaborative of twelve composers...
  
  (1794)
• L'enfance de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
  
  (1794)
• Les détenus (1794)
• Adèle et Dorsan (1795)
• Marianne (1796)
• La maison isolée (1797)
• La leçon (1797)
• Gulnare (1797)
• Alexis (1798)
• Léon (1798)
• Primerose (1798)
• Adolphe et Clara, ou Les deux prisonniers (1799)

1800–1809

• Maison à vendre (1800)
• Léhéman (1801)
• L'antichambre (1802)
• La boucle de cheveux (1803)
• La jeune prude (1804)
• Une heure de mariage (1804)
• Le pavillon du calife (1805)
• Le pavillon des fleurs (1805)
• Gulistan ou Le hulla de Samarcande (1805)
• Deux mots (1806)
• Koulouf ou Les chinois (1806)
• Lina (1807)
• Élise-Hortense (1808)
• Les trois sultanes (1809)
• Le poète et le musicien (1809, op. post., f.p. 1811)

External links

• List of Works