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PLANQUETTE, ROBERT (1850– )

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PLANQUETTE, ROBERT (1850– )

PLANQUETTE, See also:
ROBERT
ROBERT (1275—1343)
ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
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ROBERT (1850– ) , See also:

French musical composer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Paris on the 31st of See also:

JULY

July 185o, and educated at the See also:

CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire. As a boy he wrote songs and operettas for cafe concerts, and sprang into fame as the composer of See also:

Les Cloches de Corneville (Paris, 1877; See also:

LONDON

London, 1878). In this See also:

WORK

work he showed a fertile vein of See also:

MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody, which won instant recognition. There is in his See also:

MUSIC

music a See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch of pathos and romantic feeling, which, had he cared to cultivate it, would have placed him far above contemporary writers of See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera boufe. Unfortunately, he did little but repeat the See also:

formula which originally brought him reputation. Le See also:

Chevalier Gaston was produced in 1879 with little success. In 188o came Les Voltigeurs du 32'iej which had a See also:

long run in London in 1887 as The Old Guard, and La Cantiniere, which was translated into See also:

ENGLISH

English as Nectarine, though never produced. In 1882 Rip See also:

van Winkle was produced in London, being subsequently given in Paris as Rip, in both cases with remarkable success. The libretto, an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation by H. B. Farnie of See also:

Washington See also:

Irving's famous See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, brought out what was best in Planquette's See also:

TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent. In 1884 the phenomenon of an opera by a French composer being produced in London previously to being heard in Paris was repeated in Nell Gwynne, which was tolerably successful, but failed completely when produced in Paris as La Princesse Colombine.

It was followed by La Cremaillere (Paris, 1885), Surcouf (Paris, 1887; London, as See also:

Paul See also:

Jones, 1889), See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Therese (London, 1887), La Cocarde tricolore (Paris, 1892), Le See also:

TALISMAN

Talisman (Paris, 1892), Panurge (Paris, 1895) and Mam'zelle Quat'sous (Paris, 1897).

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