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Librettist. Louis de Cahusac (6 April 1706 – 22 June 1759) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist, and Freemason, most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zaïs (1748), Naïs (1749), Zoroastre (1749 ...
Louis de Cahusac, né à Montauban le 6 avril 1706 et mort à Paris le 22 juin 1759, est un auteur dramatique français. Biographie. Il fut écuyer et secrétaire des commandements du comte de Clermont, fit la campagne de 1743 avec ce prince, et le quitta pour se livrer à la littérature.
Cahusac, Louis de (1700) (b Montauban, 1700 (or 6 Apr. 1706); d Paris, 22 Jun. 1759)French ballet librettist, dance historian, and theorist on dance. He wrote the librettos for many opera ballets at the Académie Royale (the Paris Opera) from 1743 to 1759, collaborating with the composer Rameau on Les Fêtes de Polymnie (1745), Les Fêtes de l ...
One of the earliest and more exhaustive attempts at writing a dance history was Louis de Cahusac's 1754 La danse ancienne et moderne. In three volumes Cahusac emphasized the importance of the study of theories of all the arts and the origins of dance, covering Greek, Roman, Turkish, and Egyptian dance, as well as the genesis of French court and ...
Louis de Cahusac, although primarily interested in opera, was one of the major revolutionary writers on eighteenth century dance. He authored several articles for Diderot's Encyclope'die (1751-1772), notably "Ballet," "Fetes," "Figurants," and "Geste," which show a profound understanding and love of the ballet form.1
The libretto is by Rameau's frequent collaborator Louis de Cahusac. Cahusac styled the work a ballet allégorique ("allegorical ballet"), but it is usually categorised as an acte de ballet . Its slender plot tells of Jupiter's announcement to a group of Egyptian shepherds of the birth of the god Osiris , who symbolises the baby prince.
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The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, which refers to the fact that Rameau composed the opera on the occasion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession.
