Horace Coignet (13 May 1736 – 29 August 1821) was a French amateur violinist, singer and composer. He was active in Lyons as a pattern-designer and dealer in embroidered goods, as an official clerk and as musical director of the city from 1794. He became the music instructor to the Duchesse d'Aumont in Paris (at the same time serving as corresponding member of the Lyons Academy), and later returned to Lyons where he served on the directorial board of the conservatory. He was known as a gifted violinist, and composed harpsichord pieces, romances, a set of Trois duos concertants de violon et fugues, a revolutionary hymn for the Rousseau celebration at Lyons (14 October 1794) and some theatrical music (including an opera comique, Le medicin de l'amour, and an overture to La Harpe's Melanie.) His most notable work the music for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 short play Pygmalion, first performed in Lyon in 1770 was a success and soon became known throughout Europe.
HoraceCoignet (13 May 1736 – 29 August 1821) was a French amateur violinist, singer and composer. He was active in Lyons as a pattern-designer and dealer...
English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782) 1735 – HoraceCoignet, French violinist and composer (d. 1821) 1742 – Maria Christina, Duchess...
overture and an Andante, but the bulk of the music was composed by HoraceCoignet. A different musical setting of Rousseau's Pygmalion by Anton Schweitzer...
Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist (died 1796) May 13 – HoraceCoignet, composer (died 1821) June 1 – James Lyon I, composer (died 1794) June...
archaeologist James Favre-Brandt, mechanical watchmaker Jean Francisque Coignet, mining engineer Henry Scharbau, cartographer Wilhelm Böckmann, architect...
first concrete house was built in 1853 in the Paris suburbs by François Coignet. In 1877 Joseph Monier introduced the idea of strengthening the concrete...
composer (d. 1856) Monaldo Leopardi, Italian philosopher (d. 1847) Jean-Roch Coignet, French soldier (d. 1865) August 18 Agustín Argüelles, Spanish liberal...
Angelis, Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan (b. 1567) December 24 – Michiel Coignet, Flemish mathematician, astronomer, engineer and scientific instrument...
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