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Madame de Pompadour, pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, shown at the Paris Salon, 1755 Madame de Pompadour was an influential patron of the arts who played a central role in making Paris the perceived capital of taste and culture in Europe.
Madame de Pompadour, French courtier, mistress of Louis XV. Leo Fall: Madame Pompadour; Edwin Penhorwood: Too Many Sopranos (spoofed as "Madame Popmpous") Pompey the Great, Roman military and political leader Francesco Cavalli: Pompeo Magno; Empress Poppaea Augusta Sabina, consort of Roman Emperors Nero and Otho George Frideric Handel: Agrippina
Born in Olmütz (), Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848–1922), a bandmaster and composer, who settled in Berlin.The younger Fall studied at the Vienna Conservatory before rejoining his father in Berlin.
The work was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and premiered at the third-season opening of her Théâtre des Petits Appartements for the inauguration of the Theatre's new venue upon the Grand Escalier des Ambassadeurs (Ambassadors' Grand Staircase) in the Palace of Versailles, [3] starring Madame De Pompadour herself in two of the original soprano ...
Madame Pompadour (1923) Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944) ... Madame Favart, 1878; La fille du tambour-major, 1879; See also List of operettas by Jacques Offenbach.
Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Salon of 1765 was an art exhibition that took place at the Louvre in Paris.One of the biannual Salon it took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale which at this time limited submissions to the Salon largely to it own members.
The Lady of the Rose (Jean Gilbert, 1922), Madame Pompadour (Fall, 1923) and Cleopatra (Oscar Straus, 1925), all starring Evelyn Laye, were well reviewed. [19] In 1927 the theatre's policy of presenting musicals was briefly and disastrously abandoned in favour of Noël Coward 's play Sirocco , which according to Mander and Mitchenson was a ...
Louis XV in turn gave it to the successor of Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry. The Dowager Princess of Conti later also acquired the château de Voisins. Later, in 1746, the Dowager Princess was asked by Louis XV to present his new mistress, the future Madame de Pompadour, at court.