Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire

Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) Galoppe d'Onquaire (16 April 1805 – 9 January 1867) was a French writer and playwright.

Career

He was born in Montdidier, the son of Louis-Joseph Hyacinthe Galoppe-Donquaire, a merchant draper. After a brief spell as a military officer, he became a writer, under the nickname his father had given him of "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire. He also wrote poetry and articles in Mémoires de l'Académie de la Somme. He died in Le Vésinet.

He wrote opera libretti for Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin, including his setting of La Laitière de Trianon, a salon opera in 1 act.^[1]^[2] It is the best remembered, along with one song, "Ça fait peur aux oiseaux" from the operetta Bredouille, set to music by Paul Bernard (composer).

Works

Poetry, as Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire, or "Pétrus Noël"

Fumée, 1838
Feuilles volantes, 1839
Le Whist, "poème didactique en 4 chants", 1841
Mosaïque, 1842
Le Siège de la Sorbonne, ou le Triomphe de l'Université, "Poème héroï-comique en six chants", 1844

Comedies

Une Femme de quarante ans, verse comedy in 3 acts; Théâtre-français, 20 November 1844
Jean de Bourgogne, verse drama in 3 acts, with Pitre-Chevalier; Théâtre-français, 7 February 1846
Les Trois roses, 1849
Les Vendeurs du Temple, "satire réactionnaire", 1849
Le Château de Coetaven, sung comedy in 1 act, with Achille d'Artois and Charles de Besselièvre; Paris, Variétés, 24 March 1852
Le Chêne et le roseau, "comédie-vaudeville", with A. Decourcelle; Paris, Théâtre Vaudeville, 21 November 1852
L'Amour pris aux cheveux, "pochade" in 1 act; Paris, Palais-Royal, 6 November 1852
Les Vertueux de province, comedy in 3 acts; Paris, Odéon, 3 October 1860
Le Capitaine Roche, operetta in 1 act to music by Georges Pfeiffer, 1862
Bredouille, operetta in 1 act to music by Paul Bernard, 1864 (unperformed?)
La Mort de Socrate, comic opera in 1 act, 1864 (unperformed?)
La Bourse ou la vie, comic opera, 1865 (unperformed?)
L'Eau de jouvence, comedy in 1 act, 1865 (unperformed?)
La Laitière de Trianon, opera in 1 act to music by Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (unperformed?)

Other

Les Fêtes de l'église romaine, avec l'explication de l'origine de chaque solennité (1854)
Le Livre des sacrements, avec notice historique et poème sur chaque sujet (Paris: C. Maillet-Schmitz, 1857)
Le Diable boiteux à Paris (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858)
Le Diable boiteux en province (Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1858)
Le Diable boiteux au village (Paris: A. Bourdilliat, 1860)
Le Diable boiteux au château (Paris: Michel Lévy, 1863)
Hommes et bêtes, physiologies anthropozoologiques mais amusantes (Paris: Amyot, 1862)

References

^ Brown, Allen Augustus. Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston. United States, The Trustees, 1915. 284.
^ Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste. La Laitière de Trianon. Paris: Heugel, n.d.[1869]. Plate H. 3754.

[1] Brown, Allen Augustus. Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston. United States, The Trustees, 1915. 284.

[2] Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste. La Laitière de Trianon. Paris: Heugel, n.d.[1869]. Plate H. 3754.

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