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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1years before venturing on it in public. Lafont's compositions for the violin are of no musical value; they comprise seven concertos, a number of fantasies, rondos, etc. He wrote a number of duos concertants in conjunction with Kalkbrenner, Herz, etc., and more than 200 ballads (romances), which for a time were very popular. The only opera of his that can be verified is 'La Rivalité villagéoise' (1799). Fétis mentions a second one, 'Zélie et Terville' (1803), but this is by Blangini; and yet another, supposed to have been written in Russia, cannot be traced.
3P. D., rev.
5See also Herz (H., tour with). Osborne (collab. in vn. & pf. duet).
7La Fontaine, Jean de. See Audinot ('Tonnelier'). Audran ('Cigale et fourmi'). Caplet (3 fables, voice & pf.). Colasse ('Astrée', lib.). Cox (H., 3 songs). Dalayrac ('Éclipse totale' & 'Renaud d'Ast', operas). Dauvergne ('Troqueurs', opera). Egk ('Fuchs und Rabe', radio m.). Françaix ('Invocation à la volupté', voice & orch.). Gounod ('Colombe', opera; 2 choruses, 2 songs). Grétry (3 operas). Hérold (4 operas). Jongen (J., 'Cigale et fourmi', children's chorus). Manziarly (3 fables). Masson (P. M., 'Cigale et fourmi', song). Monsigny (5 operas). Mortelmans (I., 'Kreckel en Mier', opera). Offenbach (chansonnnettes, parodies of I.'s poems). Philidor (12, 3 operas). Pierné ('Coupe enchantée', opera). Poulenc ('Animaux modèles', ballet). Sauguet ('Cigale et fourmi', ballet; 'Adonis', radio m.). Thomson (V., song). Weigl (2, 'Nachtigall', opera).
9Laforgue, Jules. See Chailley ('Pan et Syrinx', lib.). Dupont (G., 'Chant de la destinée', symph. poem). Honegger (song). Ibert ('Périsée et Andromède', opera). Sauguet (2 songs).
11LAGARDE, Pierre 1 (b. nr. Crécy, Brie, 10 Feb. 1717; d. ?).
13French composer. Little is known about his early years before 1750, when he was assistant conductor at the Paris Opéra; in 1755 he was joint-conductor there, with Chéron. Later he became music teacher of the royal children (1764) and still later superintendent of music to the Comte d'Artois. He still received a pension from the Opéra in 1792. Lagarde published a large amount of miscellaneous vocal music, cantatas, cantatilles, brunettes, duos, airs, etc., among them two collections called 'Les Soirées de l'Isle Adam' (1764–66). For the stage he wrote the opera-ballets 'Aeglé' (Versailles, 13 Jan. 1748, Paris, Opéra, 18 Feb. 1751), the score of which was published, 'Silvie' (Versailles, 26 Feb. 1749), 'La Journée galante' (Versailles, 25 Feb. 1750), consisting of 'Aeglé' and two additional acts, and 'Les Fêtes de Thalie' (Bellevue, 11 Apr. 1752).
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17BIBL.—LHUILLIER, T., 'Note sur quelques artistes musiciens dans la Brie' (Meaux, 1870).
18See also Iso (law-suit).
20LAGERCRANTZ, (Anna) Ingeborg (b. Viborg [Viipuri], 27 Mar. 1913).
21Finnish musicologist. She studied at the Åbo Academy (Swedish University of Åbo [Turku]) until 1931 and then at Uppsala University in 1945–46, her principal subjects of research being musical science and folk poetry. She published her doctor's dissertation, 'Lutherska Kyrkvisor i finländska musikhandskrifter från 1500- och 1600-talen' (Helsingfors, 1948) and several other works and articles on church and folk music. A. R.
23Lagerlöf, Selma. See Juon (Capriccio on 'Gösta Berling' for pf. trio). Gurlitt (M., 'Nordische Ballade', opera). Lindberg ('Fredlos', opera). Vittadini ('Nazareth', opera). Zandonai ('Cavalieri di Ekebú', opera).
25Lagerquist. See Kilpinen (15 songs).
27LAGKHNER, Daniel (b. Marchpurg, Styria, ?; d. ?).
29Austrian 16th–17th-century organist and composer. He was organist to Count Losenstein at Losdorf about 1607. He composed motets for 4-8 voices and other church music, also secular songs (published c. 1601–28).
31E. v. d. s.
33LA GROTTE, Nicolas de (b. ?; d. ?).
35French 16th-century lutenist, organist and composer. He was chamber musician and organist to Henry III of France about 1563–87 and composed a book of chansons, to words by Ronsard, Desportes and others (1575); also songs and lute and organ pieces in collective volumes.
37E. v. d. s.
39LA GUERRE. French family of musicians.
40(1) Michel de La Guerre (b. Paris, c. 1605; d. Paris, 13 Nov. 1679), organist and composer. He was made organist of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris on 1 Jan. 1633, in place of La Galle, according to the registers of the proceedings of the Chapter. He remained organist there for the rest of his life, and from 1658 he was given, with his family, free quarters in the precincts of the palace. At the same time he added to his post as organist that of "Receveur Général du temporel de la Sainte-Chapelle", that is to say "man of business" to the canons, and this occupation turned him somewhat from his musical activities during the later years of his life, He died in the palace.
42None of his compositions has survived, though court songs by several poets of the mid-17th century became well known through his musical settings.
44He probably also wrote motets and organ works. About 1650 he was well known as a composer. His name merits recognition in musical history as that of the author of the first French opera, a comédie de chansons, as it was called, 'Le Triomphe de l'Amour sur des bergers et bergères', written to a libretto of the court poet Charles de Beys. It was sung at the Louvre before the king on 22 Jan. 1655, after having been rehearsed in public on 15 Dec. 1654. Two years later, on 26 Mar. 1657, it was revived at the court, and this time it was produced with scenery. Of the libretto, which
45(no line here) one of two readings
471 Following Fétis and Eitner his name is wrongly given as N. de Lagarde in most dictionaries and catalogues, although this was rectified by Pougin as early as 1880. one of two readings
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