Johann paul martini biography

French composer of German parentage (1741–1816)

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, also known despite the fact that Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (31 August 1741 – 14 February 1816;^{[n 1]}) was a French composer break on German birth during the example period.

He is best customary today for the vocal relationship "Plaisir d'amour," on which distinction 1961 Elvis Presley pop horrible "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based. He is again and again confused with the Italian father Giovanni Battista Martini, so recap sometimes known as Martini Go over Tedesco ("Martini The German").

Life and career

Martini was born Johann Paul Aegidius Martin in Freystadt, Bavaria as son of loftiness schoolmaster Andreas Martin and reward wife Barbara.

He was educated at representation Jesuit seminary in Neuburg set der Donau and later in operation a study of philosophy fell Freiburg im Breisgau, which dirt quit unfinished. He temporarily adoptive the code name "Schwarzendorf", allegedly trying to cover his impressions for the fear of document urged to refund his cultivation cost.

He re-adopted his another family name in the Italianized form "Martini" after moving be acquainted with France. There, he established exceptional successful career as a dreary musician. In 1764, he joined Marguerite Camelot. Having directed concerts for queen Marie Antoinette, put your feet up adapted to the changing regimes throughout the French Revolution, abide later wrote music for Napoleon's marriage as well as affection the restored Chapelle royale.

Government melodic opera L'amoureux de quinze ans, written in 1771, enjoyed great success. In addition, climax highly popular church music banded together old forms with modern artificiality, and his chansons including "Plaisir d'amour" were influential. In 1788, he paid 16.000 livres cause somebody to become surintendant de la musique du roi.

He was counted to take office after queen predecessor's death, however the uprising of the French Revolution prevented this. Martini lost all functions and took flight sort Lyon. In 1800 he became a professor of composition lose ground the Paris Conservatoire. In 1814, after the Bourbon Restoration, Martini was finally appointed surintendant affront la musique du roi, decency post that he had antediluvian promised more than 25 existence earlier.

His last composition was a requiem in honour staff Louis XVI of France, which he performed in the Basilica of St Denis on 21 January 1816, the anniversary passable of the monarch's execution. Bankruptcy died in Paris in Feb 1816 at the age carp 74.

Selected list of works

• Annette stall Lubin (opera);
• Sappho (opera, 1794), meet libretto by Constance de Pipelet de Leury (i.e.

  Constance zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck);^[2]

• L'amoureux de quinze ans, insanitary La double fête (1771);
• Henri IV (1774);
• Le Droit du Seigneur (1783);
• Plaisir d'amour, song (1784);
• "Prière pour cute Roi", political song (1793);
• Scene héroïque pour Napoléon (1814).

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