Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855), was an early 19th-century French
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
and
librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto to
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...
's opera ''
William Tell
William Tell (german: Wilhelm Tell, ; french: Guillaume Tell; it, Guglielmo Tell; rm, Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland.
According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albr ...
'' (premiered in 1829), which he wrote with
Étienne de Jouy.
Works
Theatre
*1817: ''Lothaire'', tragedy in 3 acts and in verse, with François Hay
*1822: ''Attila'', five-act tragedy, Paris,
Second Théâtre-Français, 26 April
*1827: ''Blanche d'Aquitaine, ou le Dernier des Carlovingiens'', five-act tragedy,
Théâtre-Français, 29 October
*1845: ''Jeanne de Flandre, ou Régner à tout prix'', tragedy, created by the
Théâtre-Français at the
salle Richelieu
The Salle Richelieu () is the principal theatre of the Comédie-Française. It is located in the Palais-Royal in the first arrondissement of Paris and was originally constructed in 1786–1790 to the designs of the architect Victor Louis.Wild 19 ...
on October 29, a single performance
Opera
*1829: ''
William Tell
William Tell (german: Wilhelm Tell, ; french: Guillaume Tell; it, Guglielmo Tell; rm, Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland.
According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albr ...
'', four-act opera, with
Étienne de Jouy, music by
Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...
, Paris,
Académie royale de musique, 3 August
Varia
*1822: ''Le Cimetière'', poème lyrique
*''La Marseillaise du Nord'', sung 6 December 1830, dans un banquet de Gardes nationaux de Lille et de Douai, après la réception des drapeaux donnés par le roi des Français Louis-Philippe Ier
*''Notice sur le Mal Mortier, duc de Trévise, mort assassiné près du roi, le 28 juillet 1835'', suivie du programme de l'inauguration de sa statue, le 16 septembre 1838 au Catteau-Cambrésis
*1839: ''La Flamande'', dittie in 12
couplet
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the ...
s avec refrain, réunion des Enfants du Nord du 29 April
*1842: ''Le Général Guilleminot, esquisse historique''
References
External links
Hippolyte Bison
Data.bnf.fr
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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists
Writers from Lille
1789 births
1855 deaths
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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