Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
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French composer and harpist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1789
- Died
- 1856
- Works
- 138
Top works
- The much admired air, Cease your funning
- Le roi et la ligue
- L'héritier de Paimpol
- Erik Menveds barndom
- The promissory note
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 491
- Total plays
- 1,611
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Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (9 August 1789 in Montmédy, Meuse, France – 6 January 1856 in Sydney, Australia) was a musician and composer. The son of a Bohemia-born musician Karl Bochsa (de), he was able to play the flute and piano by the age of 7. In 1807 he went to study at the Paris Conservatoire. He was appointed harpist to the Imperial Orchestra in 1813, and began writing operas for the Opéra-Comique. However, in 1817 he became entangled in counterfeiting, fraud, and forgery, and fled to L
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Montmédy
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Occupation
- harpist
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Employer
- Royal Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Étienne Méhul
- Field of work
- conducting
- Genre
- opera
- Movement
- classical music
- Instrument
- harp
- Image
- Nicolas Bochsa.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
- date of birth
- 1789-08-09
- date of death
- 1856-01-06
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- name in native language
- Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
- unmarried partner
- Anna Bishop
- P12749
- David Martin
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Le Roi et la ligue. Excerpts. Arr - Don Mus.Ms. 2099 : V (2), pf
Trois airs connus : variés pour la harpe; oeuvre 66
Vi ravviso [Música notada] :]cavatina nell'opera La sonnambula di Bellini
Método de arpa conteniendo los principios de música, ejercicios, escalas, lecciones 8ª, seguidos de 40 estudios progresivos [Música notada]
Les Pensées : troisième trio pour piano, harpe et violon; (faisant suite au souvenir et à l'Oubli); oeuvre 74
1: No. 1
2: No. 2
Premier concerto pour la Flute avec accomp.t d'orchestra
Pot-pourri
3: No. 3
Untitled