Robert Planquette

Robert Planquette (1848 - 1903)
France

France

France
Jean Robert Planquette (31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas.

Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, including Les cloches de Corneville (1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time, and Rip Van Winkle (1882), which earned international fame.

The son of a singer, Planquette was born in Paris and educated at the Paris Conservatoire. He did not finish his studies, lacking the funds to do so, and worked as a café pianist and composer and singing (he was a tenor). A few romances that he composed brought less fame than did his song, 'Sambre et Meuse', first sung in 1867 by Lucien Fugère, who went on to be one of the foremost French opera singers of his day.

In 1876, the director of the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques gave Planquette a commission to compose his first operetta, Les cloches de Corneville. It opened in Paris in 1877, running for an extremely successful 480 performances, and then enjoyed an astonishing London run, beginning in 1878, of a record-breaking 708 performances. Planquette's music has been praised for its pathos and romantic feeling. Le Chevalier Gaston was produced in 1879 with little success. In 1880 came Les Voltigeurs du 32ieme which had a long run in London in 1887 as The Old Guard, and La Cantiniére, which was translated into English as Nectarine, though never produced.

In 1882 Rip Van Winkle was produced in London and subsequently given in Paris as Rip, in both cases with great success. The libretto is an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale. In 1884 the phenomenon of an opera by a French composer being produced in London previously to being heard in Paris was repeated in Nell Gwynne, which was modestly successful, but failed when produced in Paris as La Princesse Colombine. It was followed by La Crémaillere (Paris, 1885), Surcouf (Paris, 1887; London, as Paul Jones, 1889), Captain Thérése (London, 1887), La Cocarde tricolore (Paris, 1892), Le Talisman (Paris, 1892), Panurge (Paris, 1895) and Mam'zelle Quat'sous (Paris, 1897).

Another Planquette composition, the march Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse, has achieved fame in an arrangement for brass band; it is the tune used by the Ohio State University Marching Band when performing their famed Script Ohio formation. The original orchestral version has been recorded by the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler and appears on the RCA Living Stereo CD Marches in Hi-Fi. 'The Song of the Cabin Boy,' a barcarolle from Planquette's Les cloches de Corneville was played on the violin by W.K.L. Dickson in the first experiment in history in synchronizing sound and motion pictures (1894). It is viewable online as Dickson Experimental Sound Film. (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
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The Chimes of Normandy (Final)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

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The Chimes of Normandy (Ouverture)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
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Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Dans ma myst�rieuse histoire)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
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Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Va petit mousse)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Chanson des cloches)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (J'ai fait trois fois le tour du Monde)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Sur le march� de Corneville et Vous qui voulez des servantes)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Ne parlez pas de mon courage)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Sous des armures � leur taille)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Gloire au valeureux Gr�nicheux)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Chanson du cidre)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Je regardais en l'air)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

The Chimes of Normandy (Une servante que m'importe)
Planquette, Robert
Percussion Ensemble
1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Adaptator : LECOEUR, Bruno

Added the 10 Nov 2015

(Vocal score)
Planquette, Robert
Soli, Choir and Piano
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Adaptator : Ascher, Emil

Added the 01 Nov 2019

The Chimes of Normandy
Planquette, Robert
Violin and Piano
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Sousa, John Philip

Added the 01 Nov 2019

The Chimes of Normandy
Planquette, Robert
Piano solo
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Bull, Georges

Added the 01 Nov 2019

The Chimes of Normandy
Planquette, Robert
Piano solo
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Lowell, Oscar

Added the 01 Nov 2019

Les cloches de Corneville (Vocal score)
Planquette, Robert
Piano and Voice
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Added the 01 Nov 2019

Planquette, Robert

Les cloches de Corneville (Overture) (Vocal score)
Planquette, Robert
Orchestra
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Added the 01 Nov 2019

The chimes of Corneville (Libretto)
Planquette, Robert
Voice
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Added the 02 Nov 2019

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Planquette: Rip-Rip: Voice: Vocal Work [Vocal Score]
Edition Choudens

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Cloches De Corneville (Les) (PLANQUETTE ROBERT)

Cloches De Corneville (Les) (PLANQUETTE ROBERT)
Partie Séparée [Sheet music] - Easy
Martin, Robert

4.24 EUR - Sold by LMI-partitions
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Cloches De Corneville (Les) (PLANQUETTE ROBERT)

Cloches De Corneville (Les) (PLANQUETTE ROBERT)
Conducteur [Sheet music] - Easy
Martin, Robert

29.40 EUR - Sold by LMI-partitions
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Les Cloches de Corneville (Planquette, Robert)

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Les Cloches de Corneville (Planquette, Robert)

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Piano, Vocal and Guitar [Sheet music]
Carisch

17.00 EUR - Sold by Note4Piano
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Sambre Et Meuse (RAUSKI J)
Marches militaires [Set of Parts]
Martin, Robert

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