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Nicolas Isouard
3+ albums
18th century19th centuryclassical periodromantic periodmaltese
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Nicolas Isouard (also known as Nicolò, Nicolò Isoiar or Nicolò de Malte; 18 May 1773 – 23 March 1818) was a Maltese-born French composer. Born in Porto Salvo, Valletta, Malta, Isouard studied in Rabat or Mdina with Francesco Azopardi, in Palermo with Giuseppe Amendola, and in Naples with Nicola Sala and Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. From 1795 he was organist at St. John de Gerusalemme in Valletta at the Conventual Church of the Order of Saint John, San Giovanni di Malta. He moved to Paris, where he worked as a free composer and became friends with Rodolphe Kreutzer. The pair worked together on several operas, including Le Petit page, ou La Prison d'état (1800) and Flaminius à Corinthe (1801). Isouard adopted the pseudonym Nicolò (or Nicolò de Malte) and found rapid success in the field of opéra comique with Michel-Ange (1802) and L'Intrigue aux fenêtres (1805). He composed regularly for the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, writing some thirty works for it. He composed masses, motets, cantatas, romances, and duos, along with over 45 operas. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Joconde: "Romance" - Adaptation for Piano by A. Martino
172Cendrillon, Act I: Overture
153Cendrillon, Acte 1: "Ah quel plaisir! Ah quel beau jour!"
134Cendrillon, Act I: Finale "Allons!"
105Cendrillon, Act I: Quartet "Arrangeons ces fleurs"
106Cendrillon, Act III: Trio "Vous l'épouserez"
87Cendrillon, Act I: Duet "Mon fils, mon fils"
88Cendrillon, Act I: Chorus "O heureuse journeé"
89Sinfonia in C Minor
810Cendrillon, Act II: Finale "À la plus belle"
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