The earliest discussion of its use appears in Mersenne (1636–7). The air supply to the bag comes from a small bellows strapped under the arm. The Musette is 'a small bagpipe, especially one of aristocratic design which achieved popularity in France in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America Volume 23, Number 2, Fall 2019 pp.11-13. All of this was achieved without any vulgarity with good taste and with some wit, the characters spoke and sang their thoughts in their own dialect to melodies that were fashionable at the time' Enrique Oliver: Costume Innovations in the Parody Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne. The primary difference between these works was a shift from the pure, idyllic sentiments of country characters into more realistic depictions of feelings and appearances. Rousseau’s intermède premiered on March 1, 1753, at the Parisian Académie Royale de Musique (l’Opéra) and it was performed there at least 415 times from 1753 until 1829. Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne was based on the well known and highly successful one-act intermède titled Le Devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Madame Favart herself sang the role of Bastienne,Charles-Raymond Rochard de Bouillac sang Bastien, and Gabriel Champville took the role of Colas. 'Mozart’s 1768 German operetta Bastien und Bastienne, K.50/46b, is related to the French parody Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne by Charles-Simon Favart, Marie-Justine Favart, and Harny de Guerville, which was first performed in 1753 at the Comédie Italienne in Paris. FRBNF45052628 Bouchot: Catalogue de dessins relatifs à l'histoire du théâtre conservés au Département des estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale no. An eight line poem praising the acting abilities of Champville printed in two columns below image.īnF Notice no. A very good impression on quality laid paper. The French actor Campville (Gabriel-Éléonor-Hervé Dubus) (1727-1772) of the Comédie-Italienne is depicted playing a musette de cour in the role of Colas in the French parodie 'Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne'. Fine large engraving by Jean-Baptiste de Lorraine (1737-1795) after the painting by Pierre de Lorme, painter to the Duke of Orleans.

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