Paul-César Gibert

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Paul-César Gibert, born in Versailles in 1717 and died in Paris in 1787, was a French composer. Son of a royal guard, he was sent in his youth to Naples to study music with the great masters of the conservatory, at the same time as he was employed to make engagements as good singers for the king's chapel. It was Gibert who sent castrati to Paris, many of whom were still singing at the time of the 1789 revolution, such as Albanese, for example. Around 1750 he returned to France and settled in Paris as a singing teacher. In 1760, his first comic opera, La Fortune du Village, was followed by Soliman Second, which had great success for a few years at the Italian Theater, and for which Charles Simon Favart imported costumes and sets from Constantinople. In 1766 three of his motets were premiered at the Concerts Spirituels, and soon after a set of singing exercises, "Les Solfèges" was published. Gibert was one of the first to popularize the "Mêlées des ariettes", a collection of salon pieces taken from his own operas, but his music is considered lacking in originality. His surviving works include seven operas and three motets, as well as several sets of his arrangements. Among the preserved works: La Sibylle, entertainment (1758) The Summer Carnival or the Bal aux boulevards, entertainment (1759) La Fortune au Village, comic opera (1760) Soliman Second or the Three Sultanas, comic opera (1761 ) La Fausse Turque, comic opera (1761) Apollo and Campaspé, comic opera

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