Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
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Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 - 30 September 1892) was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld.
Crémieux was born in Paris. He studied law and then worked in the civil service. His first play, Fiesque (1852) was a historical drama, but before long he started to write comedies and then, in collaboration, operetta and opéra comique librettos. His collaborations with Halévy were often written under the joint pseudonym Paul d'Arcy.
In 1887, Crémieux became secretary-general of the Société des Dépôts Comptes Courants, and ceased writing. Five years later, the Société collapsed and he committed suicide in Paris.
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[edit] Libretti
[edit] For Jacques Offenbach
- Le savetier et le financier (1856) - with E About
- Une demoiselle en loterie (1857) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
- Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) (1858) - with Ludovic Halévy
- Geneviève de Brabant (1859) - by Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu (revised by Crémieux with Tréfeu)
- La chanson de Fortunio (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy
- Le pont des soupirs (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy
- M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . . (1861) - with M de Saint Rémy, E L’Epine and Ludovic Halévy
- Le roman comique (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy
- Jacqueline (1862) - with Ludovic Halévy
- Les bergers (1865) - with Philippe Gille
- Robinson Crusoé (1867) - with Eugène Cormon
- La jolie parfumeuse (1873) - with Ernest Blum
- Bagatelle (1874) - with Ernest Blum
- La foire Saint-Laurent (1877) - with A de Saint-Albin
[edit] For Léo Delibes
- Les eaux d’Ems (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy
[edit] For Hervé
- Le petit Faust (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
- Les Turcs (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
- Le trône d'Écosse (1871) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
- La veuve du Malabar (1873) - with A. Delacour
- La belle poule (1875) - with A de Saint-Albin
[edit] For Léon Vasseur
- La famille Trouillat (1874) - with Ernest Blum
[edit] Plays
Amongst the plays written by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux are:
- Fiesque: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux, en vers, d'après Schiller (1852) - with his brother, Émile Crémieux, and based on Friedrich Schiller's play Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
- Germaine: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1858) - with Adolphe d' Ennery and based on Edmond About's novel of the same name
- La voie sacrée, ou, Les étapes de la gloire: drame militaire en cinq actes (1859) - with Eugène Woestyn and Ernest Bourget
- Le pied de mouton (1859) - with Charles-Théodore Cogniard and Jean-Hippolyte Cogniard
- L'Abbe Constantin (1882) - with Pierre Decourcelle and based on Ludovic Halévy's novel of the same name
- Autour du mariage (1883) - with the Comtesse de Martel and based on her novel of the same name
[edit] References
New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 1, p.1004.
[edit] External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Crémieux, Hector-Jonathan, written by Isidore Singer and J. Fuchs
