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PLANQUETTE, ROBERT (1850 )

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 725 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLANQUETTE, ROBERT (1850 ) , French musical composer, was born in Paris on the 31st of July 185o, and educated at the Conservatoire. As a boy he wrote songs and operettas for cafe concerts, and sprang into fame as the composer of Les Cloches de Corneville (Paris, 1877; London, 1878). In this
work
  he showed a fertile vein of melody, which won instant recognition. There is in his music a
touch
  of pathos and romantic feeling, which, had he cared to cultivate it, would have placed him far above contemporary writers of opera boufe. Unfortunately, he did little but repeat the
formula
  which originally brought him reputation. Le Chevalier Gaston was produced in 1879 with little success. In 188o came Les Voltigeurs du 32'iej which had a
long
  run in London in 1887 as The Old Guard, and La Cantiniere, which was translated into
English
  as Nectarine, though never produced. In 1882 Rip van Winkle was produced in London, being subsequently given in Paris as Rip, in both cases with remarkable success. The libretto, an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale, brought out what was best in Planquette's talent. In 1884 the phenomenon of an opera by a French composer being produced in London previously to being heard in Paris was repeated in Nell Gwynne, which was tolerably successful, but failed completely when produced in Paris as La Princesse Colombine. It was followed by La Cremaillere (Paris, 1885), Surcouf (Paris, 1887; London, as
Paul
 
Jones
 , 1889), Captain Therese (London, 1887), La Cocarde tricolore (Paris, 1892), Le
Talisman
  (Paris, 1892), Panurge (Paris, 1895) and Mam'zelle Quat'sous (Paris, 1897).


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