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Antoine Houdar de la
Motte (18
January 1672 – 26
December 1731) was a
French author. De la
Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux...
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Pierrot were Jean de Palaprat, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante,
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, and Jean-François Regnard. They
present him as an
anomaly among...
- "magic" opera,
about a
damsel in distress,
based on the
tragedy by
Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The
conception of an
opera as a
coherent structure was slow...
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ardour entered a new phase. He
parodied Homer to
serve the
cause of
Antoine Houdar de La Motte, (1672–1731) an
ingenious paradoxer;
Marivaux had
already done...
- Racine's
Esther (1721)
Hersilie in
Romulus by
Houdar de La
Motte (1722) Inês de
Castro in Inès de
Castro by
Houdar de La
Motte (1723) Salomé in Voltaire's Mariamne...
- fame as a
composer mainly rests. He had
already approached writer Antoine Houdar de la
Motte for a
libretto in 1727, but
nothing came of it; he was finally...
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didactic poem in
defense of
Leriget de la Faye in his
dispute with
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, who had
maintained that
verse was
useless in tragedy. La Chaussée...
- to debate; Mondonville's
contemporaries ascribed the
prologue to
Antoine Houdar de la
Motte and the
three acts of the
opera to the Abbé de La Marre. Titon...
- (Vanitas) but
rather as a
basis of
social institutions, as it was for
Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
Requited love was, as in
serious opera (the Tragédie en musique...
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write an
opera is
shown by a
letter he
wrote in
October 1727 to
Antoine Houdar de la
Motte asking for a libretto. It was a
strange choice; once famous...
