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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (París, 27 de mayo de 1799-Niza, 17 de marzo de 1862) fue un compositor francés.
Fromental Halévy, né le 27 mai 1799 à Paris 7 e et mort le 17 mars 1862 à Nice [1], est un compositeur français. Halévy a étudié le piano et la composition avec les musiciens les plus renommés de l'époque, dont Étienne Nicolas Méhul et Luigi Cherubini .
- Early Career
- La Juive
- Later Career
- Works
- Halévy's Family
- References
- Further Reading
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Halévy was born in Paris, son of the cantor Élie Halfon Halévy, who was the secretary of the Jewish community of Paris and a writer and teacher of Hebrew, and a French Jewish mother. The name Fromental (meaning 'oat grass'), by which he was generally known, reflects his birth on the day dedicated to that plant: 7 Prairial in the French Revolutionar...
With his opera La Juive, in 1835, Halévy attained not only his first major triumph, but gave the world a work that was to be one of the cornerstones of the French repertory for a century, with the role of Eléazar one of the great favorites of tenors such as Enrico Caruso. The opera's most famous aria is Eléazar's "Rachel, quand du Seigneur". Its or...
Halévy was elected to the Institut de France in 1836, but after La Juive, his real successes were relatively few, although at least three operas, L'Éclair, La reine de Chypre and Charles VI received some critical and popular acclaim. Heine commented that Halévy was an artist, but "without the slightest spark of genius". He became, however, a leadin...
Halévy wrote some forty operas in all, including: Halévy also wrote for the ballet, provided incidental music for a French version of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, and wrote cantatas.
Halévy's wife, Léonie (sister of Eugénie Foa) who had experienced serious mental problems during their marriage, underwent a remarkable recovery after his death and became a talented sculptor (she was 20 years younger than he.) In 1869, their daughter Geneviève married the composer Georges Bizet, who had been one of Halévy's pupils at the Conservat...
Sources
1. Bureau des Longitudes (ed.): Le Calendrier républicain(Paris: Bureau des Longitudes, 1989). 2. Conway, David: Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); ISBN 978-1-107-01538-8. 3. Delacroix, Eugène (trans. Lucy Norton): The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, ed. and introd. Hubert Wellington (3rd edn., London: Phaidon, 1995).
Halévy, Léon: F. Halévy, sa vie et ses oeuvres(Paris, 1863).Jordan, Ruth: Fromental Halévy – His Life and Music, 1799–1862 (New York: Limelight Editions, 1996; and London: Kahn & Averill, 2006); ISBN 1-871-08251-X.Macdonald, Hugh: "Halévy, Fromental", in: Grove Music Online (subscription access); Oxford Music Online, (accessed 15 February 2010).John Ericson, "The First Orchestral Use of the Valved Horn: La Juive"Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.Fromental Halévy fue un compositor musical francés. Se destacó como autor de óperas románticas (La judía, 1835). Compuso también un ballet, cantatas y música para piano y de cámara. Síntesis biográfica. Nació en Paris el 27 de mayo de 1799.
Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie (1799-1862) - Institut Européen des Musiques Juives. Por Hervé Roten. Es en la sinagoga que compositores como Fromental Halévy (1799-1862), Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) y Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) recibieron su primer formación musical.
(Jacques-François Fromental Lévy; París, 1799-Niza, 1862) Compositor francés. Fue alumno de Cherubini y instructor de Gounod y de Bizet. Destacó como creador de óperas románticas (La judía, 1835).
Jacques Fromental Halévy. Paris, 27 mai 1799 - Nice, 17 mars 1862. Jacques François Fromental Halévy naît à Paris le 27 mai 1799 dans une famille musicienne et cultivée. Son père, originaire de Franconie, est professeur, son frère Léon est écrivain, son neveu Ludovic deviendra le fameux librettiste d’ Offenbach et de Bizet.
