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Antoine Houdar de la
Motte (18
January 1672 – 26
December 1731) was a
French author. De la
Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux...
- "magic" opera,
about a
damsel in distress,
based on the
tragedy by
Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The
conception of an
opera as a
coherent structure was slow...
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Pierrot were Jean de Palaprat, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante,
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, and Jean-François Regnard. They
present him as an
anomaly among...
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ardour entered a new phase. He
parodied Homer to
serve the
cause of
Antoine Houdar de La Motte, (1672–1731) an
ingenious paradoxer;
Marivaux had
already done...
- Racine's
Esther (1721)
Hersilie in
Romulus by
Houdar de La
Motte (1722) Inês de
Castro in Inès de
Castro by
Houdar de La
Motte (1723) Salomé in Voltaire's Mariamne...
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prologue and four entrées by André
Campra to a
French libretto by
Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The
opera is
regarded as the
first opéra-ballet, with the entrées...
- tragédie en
musique in a
prologue and five acts. The libretto, by
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is
based on the Gr**** myth of
Alcyone and Ceyx as recounted...
- 1524) 1646 –
Henri de Bourbon,
prince of Condé (b. 1588) 1731 –
Antoine Houdar de la Motte,
French author (b. 1672) 1771 –
Claude Adrien Helvétius, French...
- (Vanitas) but
rather as a
basis of
social institutions, as it was for
Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
Requited love was, as in
serious opera (the Tragédie en musique...
- Grèce, a
French tragédie-lyrique by André
Cardinal Destouches and
Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
Amadigi was
written for a
small cast,
employing four high voices...
