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Jean Guillaume Antoine Cuvelier

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Playwright

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Born
  
15 January 1766
Boulogne-sur-Mer

Died
  
25 May 1824, Paris, France

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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    Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier Wikipedia
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