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Navoigille, Guillaume [l'aîné]
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Navoigille, Guillaume [l'aîné](b Givet, c1745; d Paris, Nov 1811). French violinist and composer, brother of Julien Navoigille le cadet. The only information regarding his origins and early life comes from a fanciful and thoroughly unreliable article by J.B.B. Roquefort which relates that his real surname was Julien and that he was adopted by an expatriate Venetian noble named Navoigille, who settled in France about 1750. Although this story is implausible, no better information has come to light. The Navoigille who obtained a printing privilege in Paris on 6 March 1749 could not have been Guillaume; perhaps it was his father, for Guillaume signed his six trios op.1 (1765) ‘Navoigille fils’, implying that his father was also known in musical circles. The dedication of op.1 – the earliest reliable document of Navoigille's career – to Baron de Bagge reveals that he had been in the baron's service since about 1760. Between 1765 and 1777 he published all his principal compositions; they are mostly sonatas, trios and symphonies in a highly conventional style. During the same time he was employed in the orchestra of the Duke of Orléans. Twice in 1778 symphonies by Navoigille were heard at the Concert Spirituel. He seems to have been a competent but unremarkable violinist; the newspapers often reported his participation in concerts, but seldom offered any evaluation of his playing. After about 1780 Navoigille turned his attention to directing and teaching. By about 1783 he was conductor of the Concert de la Loge Olympique (formerly the Concert des Amateurs) and at the same time he became a violin professor at the Lycée des Arts, a free school for talented young musicians, where Alexandre Boucher, having been admitted on his recommendation, was his pupil. During the Revolution Navoigille remained active as a conductor and even composed several Revolutionary songs, of which two have survived. He did not, however, compose the Marseillaise, as Fétis once claimed. About 1805 he and his brother went to the Netherlands to play in the royal orchestra under Plantade. On the unification of France and the Netherlands (1810) they returned to Paris.
BIBLIOGRAPHYBrookSF La LaurencieEF MGG1 (B.S. Brook) PierreH G. Vallat: Etudes d'histoire, de moeurs et d'art musical (Paris, 1890) C. Pierre: Les hymnes et chansons de la Révolution (Paris, 1904/R) N. Wild: Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens au XIXe siècle (Paris, 1989) JEAN HARDEN Navoigille, Julien[le cadet] (b Givet, c1749; d ?Paris, after 1811). French violinist and composer, brother of Guillaume Navoigille l’aîné. He was known as a violinist in Paris by about 1773 and was active thereafter as teacher, player, director and composer. It is difficult to separate his activities from those of his brother, for each is usually called simply ‘Navoigille’ in newspaper accounts. According to Roquefort, Julien was deputy leader and later director of the private orchestra of the Count of Provence (later Louis XVIII) from 1789 to 1792. Subsequently he directed at the Théâtre de la Pantomime (later Théâtre de la Cité), for which he wrote La naissance de la pantomime and L’héroine suisse, ou Amour et courage. He was in the Netherlands with his brother from 1805 to 1810, after which he returned to Paris. Navoigille’s nephew Joseph (Giuseppe) Navoigille published two works, Sei alletamenti da camera (Paris, n.d.) and 6 trietti (Paris, 1778), both for two violins (or flutes) and bass. Julien’s daughter (name unknown) received favourable reviews as a harpist in 1798. WORKSstagefirst performed at the Théâtre de la Pantomime, Paris; all lost
instrumentalpublished in Paris unless otherwise stated
BIBLIOGRAPHYBrookSF La LaurencieEF MGG1 (‘Navoigille, Guillaume l'aîné’, B.S. Brook) P.L. Jacob, ed.: Bibliothèque dramatique de Monsieur de Soleinne (Paris, 1843–5); suppl. by C. Brunet: Table des pièces de théâtre (Paris, 1914) N. Wild: Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens au XIXe siècle (Paris, 1989) JEAN HARDEN Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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