Jean-Benjamin de La Borde

Jean-Benjamin de La Borde

Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (5 September 1734 – 22 July 1794) was a French composer, writer on music and fermier général (farm tax collector). Born into an aristocratic family, he studied violin under Antoine Dauvergne and composition under Jean-Philippe Rameau. From 1762 to 1774, he served at the court of Louis XV as premier valet de la chambre, losing his post on the death of the king. He wrote many operas, mostly comic, and a four-volume collection of songs for solo voice, Choix de chansons mises en musique illustrated by Jean-Michel Moreau. Many of the songs from the collection were later published individually through the efforts of the English folksong collector Lucy Etheldred Broadwood. His Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne was published in 1780. La Borde was guillotined during the French Revolution in 1794.

Operas

Title Genre Number of acts Libretto Première date Theatre
La chercheuse d'oiseaux opéra comique en vaudeville 1 de Rozée 1748 ?
Le rossignol ou le mariage secret comédie en vaudeville 1 Charles Collé 18 November 1751 Château de Berny
Gilles garçon peintre, amoureux et rival parody 1 Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet 1757 Château de Berny
Les bons compères ou les bons amis opéra comique 1 Michel-Jean Sedaine 5 March 1761 Foire Saint-Germain, Paris
Annette et Lubin pastorale 1 Jean-François Marmontel 30 March 1762 Château de Choisy
Ismène et Isménias ou La fête de Jupiter tragédie en musique 3 Pierre Laujon 13 June 1763 Château de Choisy
L'anneau perdu et retrouvé (in collaboration with Chardin) opéra comique 2 Michel-Jean Sedaine 20 August 1764 Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne Paris
Le dormeur éveillé opéra comique 2 Louis Anseaume 27 October 1764 Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau
Fanny comédie-lyrique 1 Nicolas Chamfort ? 1765
Les amours de Gonesse opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) 1 Nicolas Chamfort, Charles-Simon Favart, the Marquis de Ménilglaise 8 May 1765 Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris
Le coup de fusil opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) 1 ? 1766 ?
Le revenant opéra comique 1 François-Georges Fouques Deshayes 1766 ?
La bergère des Alpes (in collaboration with Josef Kohault) pastorale 3 Jean-François Marmontel 19 February 1766 Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris
Pandore (in collaboration with Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer) opéra 5 Voltaire 14 February 1767 Menus Plaisirs du Roi, Paris
Amphion pastorale 1 Antoine-Léonard Thomas 13 October 1767 Salle des Machines, Paris
Candide opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) 1 Le Prieur 1768 ?
La meunière de Gentilly opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) ? Pierre-René Lemonnier 13 October 1768 Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne,Paris
Alix et Alexis opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) ? Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet 6 July 1769 Château de Choisy
Jeannot et Colin opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) 1 François-Georges Fouques Deshayes 1770 ?
Colette et Mathurin opéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes) ? François-Georges Fouques Deshayes 1771 ?
La cinquantaine pastorale 3 François-Georges Fouques Deshayes 13 August 1771 Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris
Amadis de Gaule (in collaboration with Pierre Montan Berton) tragédie en musique 5 Philippe Quinault 26 November 1771 Académie royale de musique, Paris
Adèle de Ponthieu (in collaboration with Pierre Montan Berton) tragédie en musique 3 Jean-Paul-André Razins de Saint-Marc 1 December 1772 Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris
L'amour quêteur comédie 2 Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau ("Madame Beaunoir") 16 September 1777 Théâtre des Grands-Danseurs du Roi, Paris

In popular culture

La Borde's role at court is embellished in a fictional book series about police commissioner "Nicolas Le Floch" by Jean-François Parot. The stories have also been adapted for a television series in which La Borde appears regularly.


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