Amédée de Beauplan
Amédée de Beauplan (11 July 1790 – 24 December 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright, composer and painter. In fact used as a nom-de-plume by Amédée Rousseau. Much of his family (including his father), close to queen Marie Antoinette's entourage, was executed during the French Revolution.
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Amédée de Beauplan
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- Birth Name
- Amédée Rousseau
- Born
- 11 July 1790
- Birthplace
- Beauplan, former hamlet near Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (Seine-et-Oise)
- Died
- 24 December 1853
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- Playwright, composer and painter
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- music · painting · literature
- Movements
- classical music
- Languages
- French
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Amédée de Beauplan (11 July 1790 – 24 December 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright, composer and painter. In fact used as a nom-de-plume by Amédée Rousseau. Much of his family (including his father), close to queen Marie Antoinette's entourage, was executed during the French Revolution.
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Amédée de Beauplan (1790–1853) was a French composer, painter and pianist, among other activities. Born in Versailles, the composer died in Paris.
Amédée de Beauplan worked in Paris. The composer was active in literature, music and painting. Amédée de Beauplan was associated with classical music.
Genres include opera. Languages used include French.
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He composed hit songs, including Le Pardon and Dormez, mes chères amours, and the famous Leçon de valse du petit François (1834) sung in cabarets for over a century (in particular by George Chepfer), and two opéras comiques: L'Amazone, after Scribe, Delestre-Poirson and Mélesville (1830) and Le Mari au bal (1845). Dormez, mes chères amours was also utilized as the text for the aria of Monsieur Guillot in Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. He also authored several vaudevilles, novels, fables and painted some pictures between 1833 and 1842. He was Arthur de Beauplan's father (1823–1890), also a playwright.
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• Birth Name — Amédée Rousseau • Born — 11 July 1790 • Birthplace — Beauplan, former hamlet near Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (Seine-et-Oise) • Died — 24 December 1853 • Place of death — Paris • Occupation — Playwright, composer and painter
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The authorities additionally record the headings Amédée Rousseau and Amedee de Beauplan. His recorded language was French. One child is recorded: Arthur de Beauplan.
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1790
Amédée de Beauplan was born in 1790 at Versailles.
1853
Amédée de Beauplan died in 1853 at Paris.
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- 1.Fauquet (2003), see Bibliography.
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- Joël-Marie Fauquet, "Beauplan, Amédée de", in Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2003), .
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