Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam (French: [adɔlf adɑ̃]; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" ("Midnight, Christians", 1847, known in English as "O Holy Night"). Adam was the son of a well-known composer and pianist, but his father did not wish him to pursue a musical career. Adam defied his father, and his many operas and ballets earned him a good living until he lost all his money in 1848 in a disastrous bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching. He was appointed as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, France's principal music academy. Together with his older contemporary Daniel Auber and his teacher Adrien Boieldieu, Adam is credited with creating the later Romantic French form of opera.
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- Giselle, Act I: Introduction
- Cantique de Noël "O Holy Night / Minuit, chrétiens" (Orch. Gamley)
- Giselle, Act I: No. 1, Les vendangeurs
- Giselle, Act I: No. 3, Loys seul – Entrée de Giselle
- Giselle, Act I: No. 2, Entrée du Prince
- Giselle, Act I: Pas des vendanges: d. Allegro un peu louré
- Giselle, Act I: No. 4, Retour de la vendange – Valse
- Giselle, Act I: No. 8a, Finale
- Giselle, Act I: No. 8, Galop général
- Giselle, Act I: Pas de seul. Variation de Giselle
- Giselle, Act I: No. 7, Marche des vignerons
- Giselle, Act I: No. 5, La chasse
- Giselle, Act II: No. 10, Apparition de Myrthe et évocation magique. Andante – Andantino poco allegretto – No. 10a, Pas des premières Wilis
- Giselle, Act II: No. 15, Grand pas de deux: b. Variation de Loys
- Giselle, Act II: No. 15, Grand pas de deux: a. Adage. Andante
- Giselle, Act II: No. 14, Entrée d'Hilarion, scène et fugue des Wilis
- Giselle, Act II: No. 13, Entreé de Loys et Wilfrede
- Giselle, Act II: No. 11, Apparition de Giselle
- Giselle, Act II: No. 16, Finale
- Giselle, Act II: No. 15, Grand pas de deux: c. Variation de Giselle. Andante
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