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The first Paris music hall built specially for that purpose was the Folies-Bergere (1869); it was followed by the Moulin Rouge (1889), the Alhambra (1866), the first to be called a music hall, and the Olympia (1893). The Printania (1903) was a music-garden, open only in summer, with a theater, restaurant, circus, and horse-racing.
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd Subcategories ... Pages in category "18th-century French composers" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century French male musicians and Category:18th-century French women musicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
In the seventeenth century, instrumental music developed a great deal, and vocal music was usually accompanied by a written bassline called the basso continuo. Instrumental works included keyboard suites, which were based on dance suites, sonatas, organ music, and music for small groups (trio sonatas) or orchestra (e.g., sinfonias and concerto ...
Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the church of Les Invalides, and the Panthéon, and the founding of the Louvre Museum.
He wrote Méthode de Flûte Théorique et Pratique (1793), which was reprinted several times and did much to improve the level of French wind music in the late 18th century. Like Mozart and many other musicians, he joined the Freemasons and Concert de la Loge Olympique orchestra. Devienne died in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris on September ...
Aubert was born in Paris [3] and was probably the son of Jean Aubert, a member of the 24 Violins du Roi until his death in 1710. [1] Jacques was a student of Jean Baptiste Senaillé . [ citation needed ] In 1717 he is known to have been working in the Théâtres de la Foire , as a violinist and dancing-master, and had composed at least five ...