Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 1672 – 26 December 1731) was a French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux...

he published an Epître de Clio, a didactic poem in defense of Leriget de la Faye in his dispute with Antoine Houdar de la Motte, who had maintained that...

entered a new phase. He parodied Homer to serve the cause of Antoine Houdar de La Motte, (1672–1731) an ingenious paradoxer; Marivaux had already done...

surname include: Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731), French author August de la Motte (1713–1788), Hanoverian general Benjamin Motte (1693–1738), English...

prologue and four entrées by André Campra to a French libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The opera is regarded as the first opéra-ballet, with the entrées...

distress is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Amadigi was written for a...

Palaprat (1650–1721) Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708) Madame Ulrich (1665–1707) Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Pierre-François...

tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Alcyone and Ceyx as recounted by...

royale de musique on 3 September 1739: Momus amoureux, one-act ballet, presented on 27 October 1753: With Antoine Houdar de La Motte, argument de Titon...

(Vanitas) but rather as a basis of social institutions, as it was for Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Requited love was, as in serious opera (the Tragédie en musique...