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'''See ''[[Le maréchal ferrant]]'''''
 
'''See ''[[Le maréchal ferrant]]'''''
  
 
Original title ''Le Maréchal Ferrant: Opéra Comique En Un Acte'' by Antoine-François Quétant, 
 
 
translated into Dutch by J. Menkema Jr.  One-act comic opera by Antoine-François Quétant.
 
 
A Dutch translation of ''Le Maréchal Ferrant: Opéra Comique En Un Acte'' by Antoine-François Quétant,  translated into Dutch by J. Menkema Jr. The translation published in Amsterdam in 1784.
 
 
The play was first published and performed with great success in 1761 in Paris with the title ''Le maréchal ferrant'', with music by the famous composer (and chess player) François André Danacan Philidor . In 1762 the French text was already published and performed in the Amsterdam theatre. An earlier translation into Dutch by Jacques Toussaint Neyts (1727-1794) was published in Amsterdam in 1769, titled ''De paarde smit''.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1835: Performed by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Toneel]] on 12 September 1835 (as afterpiece to ''[[Claudine]]'' (Van der Willigen),  repeated on 19 September (alongside ''[[De Twee Jagers en het Melkmeisje]]'' and ''[['t Zal laat Worden]]'' ) and
 
 
1836: Performed once more by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Toneel]] on 10 June, alongside ''[[De Struikroovers van Kalabrien, of De Onveilige Wildernis]]'' (J.-M. Loaisel-Tréogate).
 
 
1849: Performed on 8 June by [[Tot Oefening en Vermaak]] in the [[Hoopstraat-Skouburg]],  alongside ''[[Zoé|Zoë, of De Zegepraal eener Standvastige Liefde]]'' (Lijnslager, based on Mercier), and two "divertissements" (''[[Oude Meisjes van drie en vyftig Jaren]]'' and ''[[Die het Schoentje past, die trekt ze aan]]'').
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 271, 274, 453
 
 
http://www.forumrarebooks.com/QuEtant-Francois-Antoine-De-hoefsmit-blyspel-met.html
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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("The Blacksmith ") Dutch title for Le maréchal ferrant, the one-act comic opera by Antoine-François Quétant.

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