Abbé de La Marre

French choreographer and librettist
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IntroFrench choreographer and librettist
PlacesFrance
isWriter Dancer Choreographer Librettist Playwright
Work fieldDancing Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature Music
Gender
Male
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Biography

The abbé de La Marre (or La Mare) (Quimper, 1708 – Bavaria, 1742) was an 18th-century French homme de lettres. Voltaire was interested in him and gave him some literary works to do. He was a member of the Société du bout du banc hosted by Mlle Quinault.

Works

  • 1736: L'Ennui d'un quart d'heure
  • 1736: Remarks on La Mort de César by Voltaire
  • 1739: Le Je ne sais quoi de vingt minutes, poems
  • 1739: Zaïde, reine de Grenade, ballet héroïque, music by Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer, given at the Académie royale de musique on 3 September
  • 1739: Momus amoureux, one-act ballet, presented on 27 October
  • 1753: With Antoine Houdar de La Motte, argument de Titon et l'Aurore, pastorale héroïque, libretto by Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, music by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, premiered at the Académie royale de musique on 9 January
  • 1766: Les Quarts d'heure d'un joyeux solitaire, (attr. ; reimp. 1882 under the title Contes de l'abbé de La Marre, les Quarts d'heure d'un joyeux solitaire)

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