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FRANCOIS ADRIEN BOIELDIEU

16thDecember 1775 --- 8thOctober 1834

Francois Adrien Boieldieu,  he was born in 1775 and died in 1834.  Boieldieu who helped transform the French comic oprea into
a more serious form of Romantic opera.

Boieldieu began  studying under the  organist  Charles Broche  were he composed operas  and piano pieces in  his home town of
Rouen. He was one of the first important French composer's of Piano music to produce music for the new upcoming instrument.
When he was 21  he moved to  Paris because  of the Revoluion.  It  was here he met   Cherubini and Méhu  who may  have had a
influence on his works,  in Paris he produce several of his comic operas,  he then became professor of piano at  the conservatory
in Paris (1798), in around 1800 he composed the piece  I have done below Known as the  Caliph of Bagdad.  He left France to go
to Russia to become the director of the opera at St. Petersburg.; After Napoleonn downfall at the Battle of Warerloo he returned
to France to  become director of music.  Here he produced his most famous operas  like Le Petit Chaperon rouge (1818),  and his
masterpiece The White Lady. He also composed other works which you can find more information online.

His melodies nearly always avoided any undue ornamentation,  which were set to light but careful orchestration.  Hector Berlioz
described his  music as possessing  "a pleasing and tasteful Parisian elegance".  In 1798,  he presented the  Favart with Zoraime
et Zulmare, which brought him extraordinary success.

Last Updated on 2018
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

"The Caliph of Bagdad". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie

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