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Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf də mɔ̃dɔ̃vil], 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great success in his day. Pierre-Louis Daquin (son of the composer Louis-Claude Daquin) claimed, "If I couldn't be Rameau, there's no one I would rather be than Mondonville".[1]

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1746
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1746

Life


Mondonville, 1768 engraving
Mondonville, 1768 engraving

Mondonville was born in Narbonne in Occitania (South France) to an aristocratic family which had fallen on hard times. In 1733, he moved to Paris where he gained the patronage of the king's mistress Madame de Pompadour and won several musical posts, including violinist for the Concert Spirituel.

His first opus was a volume of violin sonatas, published in 1733. He became a violinist of the Chapelle royale and chamber and performed in some 100 concerts. Some of his grands motets were also performed that year, receiving considerable acclaim. He was appointed sous-maître in 1740 and, in 1744, intendant of the Chapelle royale. He produced operas and grands motets for the Opéra and Concert Spirituel respectively, and was associated with the Théatre des Petits-Cabinets, all the while maintaining his career as a violinist throughout the 1740s. In 1755, he became director of the Concert Spirituel on the death of Pancrace Royer. Mondonville died in Belleville near Paris at the age of sixty.[2]


Music



Sacred music


Between 1734 and 1755, Mondonville composed 17 grands motets, of which only nine have survived. The motet Venite exultemus domino, published in 1740, won him the post of Maître de musique de la Chapelle (Master of Music of the Chapel). Thanks to his mastery of both orchestral and vocal music, Mondonville brought to the grand motet — the dominant genre of music in the repertory of the Chapelle royale (Royal Chapel) before the French Revolution — an intensity of colour and a dramatic quality hitherto unknown. In 1758, he introduced oratorios as a new genre at the Concert Spirituel.[3]


Operas


Although Mondonville's first stage work, Isbé, was a failure, he enjoyed great success with the lighter forms of French Baroque opera: the opéra-ballet and the pastorale héroïque. His most popular works were Le carnaval de Parnasse, Titon et l'Aurore and Daphnis et Alcimadure (for which he wrote his own libretto in Languedocien, his native dialect of the Occitan language).[4] Titon et l'Aurore played an important role in the Querelle des Bouffons, the controversy between partisans of French and Italian opera which raged in Paris in the early 1750s. Members of the "French party" ensured that Titon's premiere was a resounding success (their opponents even alleged they had guaranteed this result by packing the Académie Royale de Musique, where the staging took place, with royal soldiers).[5] Mondonville's one foray into serious French opera - the genre known as tragédie en musique - was a failure however. He took the unusual step of re-using a libretto, Thésée, which had originally been set in 1675 by the "father of French opera", Jean-Baptiste Lully. Mondonville's bold move to substitute Lully's much-loved music with his own did not pay off. The premiere at the court in 1765 had a mixed reception and a public performance two years later ended with the audience demanding it be replaced by the original. Yet Mondonville was merely ahead of his time - in the 1770s, it became fashionable to reset Lully's tragedies with new music, the most famous example being Armide by Gluck.[4]


Selected works



Instrumental



Operas



Grands motets


Mondonville's nine surviving grands motets are:


Oratorios


Mondonville's three oratorios (none survive) were:


Recordings of works by Mondonville



References


  1. Quoted in the booklet to Titon et l'Aurore
  2. Biographical information: Viking, various booklet notes
  3. C. Pierre, Histoire du Concert spirituel (Paris: Heugel, 1975)
  4. Viking
  5. Booklet notes to Titon et l'Aurore

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На других языках


[de] Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (getauft 25. Dezember 1711 in Narbonne; † 8. Oktober 1772 in Belleville bei Paris) war ein französischer Violinist und Komponist.
- [en] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

[es] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, también conocido como Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (bautizado en Narbona el 25 de diciembre de 1711 - fallecido en Belleville, cerca de París, el 8 de octubre de 1772) fue un violinista y compositor francés. Fue contemporáneo de Jean-Philippe Rameau y tuvo un gran éxito en su época. Pierre-Louis Daquin (hijo del compositor Louis Claude Daquin) comentó de él que: "Si no pudiera ser Rameau, no hay nadie quien yo quisiera ser salvo Mondonville.[1]

[ru] Мондонвиль, Жан-Жозеф де

Жан-Жозе́ф Кассане́а де Мондонви́ль (фр. Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville; 25 декабря 1711, Нарбонна — 8 октября 1772, Бельвиль) — французский композитор, скрипач, дирижер и либреттист. Повлиял на развитие французской оперы и стиля рококо[1]. Наряду с Жаном-Филиппом Рамо, был одной из выдающихся фигур французской музыки XVIII века.



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