André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741 – 1813) was a
composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
(present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in
France and took French nationality. He is most famous
for his opéras comiques.
"Zémire et Azor" (Zémire and Azor) is an opéra
comique, described as a comédie-ballet mêlée de
chants et de danses, in four acts by the Belgian
composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean
François Marmontel based on La Belle et la bête
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André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741 – 1813) was a
composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
(present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in
France and took French nationality. He is most famous
for his opéras comiques.
"Zémire et Azor" (Zémire and Azor) is an opéra
comique, described as a comédie-ballet mêlée de
chants et de danses, in four acts by the Belgian
composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean
François Marmontel based on La Belle et la bête
(Beauty and the Beast) by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de
Beaumont, and Amour pour amour by P. C. Nivelle de La
Chaussé. The opera includes the famous coloratura
display piece La Fauvette in which the soprano imitates
birdsong.
The passepied (French [pasˈpje] 'passing feet') is
a 17th- and 18th-century dance that originated in
Brittany. The term can also be used to describe the
music to which a passepied is set. The music is an
example of a dance movement in Baroque music and is
almost always a movement in binary form with a fast
tempo and a time signature of three quavers (eighth
notes) per bar, each section beginning with an upbeat
of a single quaver.
This arrangement of the "Passepied" features a Woodwind
Quartet.
SHEET MUSIC