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.[1][2]

Jean-Benjamin de La Borde

Operas

TitleGenreNumber of actsLibrettoPremière dateTheatre
La chercheuse d'oiseauxopéra comique en vaudeville1de Rozée1748?
Le rossignol ou le mariage secretcomédie en vaudeville1Charles Collé18 November 1751Château de Berny
Gilles garçon peintre, amoureux et rivalparody1Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet1757Château de Berny
Les bons compères ou les bons amisopéra comique1Michel-Jean Sedaine5 March 1761Foire Saint-Germain, Paris
Annette et Lubinpastorale1Jean-François Marmontel30 March 1762Château de Choisy
Ismène et Isménias ou La fête de Jupitertragédie en musique3Pierre Laujon13 June 1763Château de Choisy
L'anneau perdu et retrouvé (in collaboration with Chardin)opéra comique2Michel-Jean Sedaine20 August 1764Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne Paris
Le dormeur éveilléopéra comique2Louis Anseaume27 October 1764Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau
Fannycomédie-lyrique1Nicolas Chamfort?1765
Les amours de Gonesseopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)1Nicolas Chamfort, Charles-Simon Favart, the Marquis de Ménilglaise8 May 1765Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris
Le coup de fusilopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)1?1766?
Le revenantopéra comique1François-Georges Fouques Deshayes1766?
La bergère des Alpes (in collaboration with Josef Kohault)pastorale3Jean-François Marmontel19 February 1766Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris
Pandore (in collaboration with Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer)opéra5Voltaire14 February 1767Menus Plaisirs du Roi, Paris
Amphionpastorale1Antoine-Léonard Thomas13 October 1767Salle des Machines, Paris
Candideopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)1Le Prieur1768?
La meunière de Gentillyopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)?Pierre-René Lemonnier13 October 1768Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne,Paris
Alix et Alexisopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)?Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet6 July 1769Château de Choisy
Jeannot et Colinopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)1François-Georges Fouques Deshayes1770?
Colette et Mathurinopéra comique (comédie mêlée d'ariettes)?François-Georges Fouques Deshayes1771?
La cinquantainepastorale3François-Georges Fouques Deshayes13 August 1771Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris
Amadis de Gaule (in collaboration with Pierre Montan Berton)tragédie en musique5Philippe Quinault26 November 1771Académie royale de musique, Paris
Adèle de Ponthieu (in collaboration with Pierre Montan Berton)tragédie en musique3Jean-Paul-André Razins de Saint-Marc1 December 1772Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris
L'amour quêteurcomédie2Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau ("Madame Beaunoir")16 September 1777Théâtre des Grands-Danseurs du Roi, Paris

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.

He is portrayed by Benjamin Lavernhe in 2023 film Jeanne du Barry.[3]

References

  1. CESAR (Calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime et sous la révolution). Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. Retrieved 2 November 2013 (in French).
  2. Rogal, Samuel J. (ed.) (2002). The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886): The Study of the Dispersal of a Nineteenth-century American Private Library, Volume 1, p. 456. Edwin Mellen Press
  3. Jeanne du Barry (2023) - IMDb, retrieved 2023-08-15
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