Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne or Moyne (3 April 1751 – 30 December 1796) was a French composer, chiefly of operas.

Born in Eymet, Dordogne, he first worked as a musician in Berlin and Warsaw, where in 1775 he produced his first opera, Le bouquet de Colette, starring his pupil Antoinette de Saint-Huberty (née Clavel). He returned to France and wrote the tragic opera Électre, which received its premiere in 1782. Lemoyne claimed his music was following the example of Christoph Willibald Gluck, then the greatest influence on French opera, but when Électre failed, Gluck rejected any association with the younger composer. Lemoyne turned to Gluck's rivals, Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, as musical models for his next two tragedies, Phèdre (1786) and the Egyptian-set Nephté (1789), which had more success. His later operas are less important. He died in Paris.[1][2]

Operas

References

  1. ^ Rushton.
  2. ^ a b Viking 1993, p. 562.
  3. ^ Title page of published libretto
  4. ^ Original edition of the libretto
  5. ^ Viking 1993, p. 582.
  6. ^ Darlow 2012, p. 59.
  7. ^ Title page of 1796 edition
  8. ^ Tissier 2002, p. 63 for the name of the librettist
  9. ^ Title page of the published score
  10. ^ Darlow 2012, p. 214.
  11. ^ Kennedy 1996, p. 170.
  12. ^ a b Darlow 2012, p. 326.
  13. ^ Kennedy 1996, p. 266.
  14. ^ Date from Tissier 2002, p. 103
  15. ^ Tissier 2002, p. 104.
  16. ^ Kennedy 1996, p. 162.

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