Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French playwright
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Place of Birth: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France, France
About Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier
- Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier (15 January 1766 – 25 May 1824) was a French playwright, nicknamed the Crébillon of melodrama. He first entered the military career then turned to theatre and was a rival of René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.
- From 1793 to 1824, he authored an incredible number of melodramas, dramas, pantomimes, etc.
- many of which were met with great success: the number is more than 110 including the Fille sauvage, the Main de Fer, the Fille mendiante, Jean Sbogar, Machabées, and the Mort de Kleber. 1804: L'Officier cosaque, one-act comedy mingled with songs by Charles Dumonchau with Luigi Gianella and Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 9 April 1807: La lanterne de Diogène, pantomime équestre, music arranged by Guillaume Navoigille.
- Premiered at the opening of the Cirque olympique on 28 December 1807, Paris : Barba, 1808 [1]. 1811: La Petite Nichon, ou La Petite Paysanne de la Moselle, petits tableaux in 1 action and 1 prologue by Pierre Villiers and Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 23 November 1814: Le Vieux de la montagne, ou Les Arabes du Liban, three-act melodrama in prose by Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier, music by Louis Alexandre Piccinni, ballet by Rhénon, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 26 December
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