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| − | ''[[Le Maréchal Ferrant]]'' ("The farrier") is an ''opéra comique'' in two acts by Antoine-François Quétant, with music by François André Danacan Philidor.
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| − | == Original play ==
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| − | The work is based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s ''Decameron'' and its full original title was ''Le Maréchal Ferrant: Opéra Comique En Un Acte'' by Antoine-François Quétant. It was first published and performed at the Théâtre de la Foire St Laurentin in Paris with great success on 22 August 1761. in 1761, with
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| − | In 1762 the French text was performed in the Amsterdam theatre.
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| − | == Translations ==
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| − | In 1769 a translation into [[Dutch]] by Jacques Toussaint Neyts (1727-1794), entitled ''[[De paarde smit]]'', was published in Amsterdam in 1769.
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| − | In 1784 another [[Dutch]] translation, entitled ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'', by J. Menkema Jr was published in Amsterdam - this was the text used in South Africa.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1835: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'', the 1784 [[Dutch]] version by Menkema, was performed by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Tooneel]] 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]]'' ).
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| − | 1836: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'' performed once more by the children's company [[Kunst en Smaak]] in the [[Liefhebbery Tooneel]] on 10 June, alongside ''[[De Struikroovers van Kalabrien, of De Onveilige Wildernis]]'' (J.-M. Loaisel-Tréogate).
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| − | 1849: ''[[De Hoefsmid]]'' 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]]'').
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 271, 274, 453
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| − | http://www.forumrarebooks.com/QuEtant-Francois-Antoine-De-hoefsmit-blyspel-met.html
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| − | Julian Rushton. 1992. "Maréchal ferrant, Le", in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' (Grove Music Online: January 2001)[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O903299]
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