Amédée de Beauplan

Amédée de Beauplan (11 July 1790 – 24 December 1853) was a 19th-century French playwright, composer and painter. [1]

Amédée de Beauplan
Le Bal de Musard, musical score
Born
Amédée Rousseau

11 July 1790
Beauplan, former hamlet near Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (Seine-et-Oise)
Died24 December 1853(1853-12-24) (aged 63)
Paris
OccupationPlaywright, composer and painter

Much of his family (including his father), close to queen Marie Antoinette's entourage, was executed during the French Revolution.

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). 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.

Bibliography
  • Joël-Marie Fauquet, "Beauplan, Amédée de", in Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2003), ISBN 2-213-59316-7.

References
  1. Fauquet (2003), see Bibliography.


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