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Louis Compain
Louis Compain (14 April 1733, Toury – after 1790), also known as Compain-Despierrières, was a French actor and singer. He is notable as the co-director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1772 to 1776, where he had made his debut in 1757. He also acted in the Du Londel Troupe in Sweden, at Marseille (1759), Bordeaux (1760), The Hague (1768), Metz (1778), Toulouse (1779), Nîmes (
1773).
During the season 1776-1777, he gave another eight ballets and shared his job with Auguste Fisse.
The contract concluded on February 17, 1772 with the directors of the theatre Ignaz Vitzthumb and Louis Compain specified that Bocquet was engaged as ballet master, as well as "to educate and train those we destine to figure and to sing in the opera the roles which will be judged to suit him, and in the comedy of accessories."
External links.
- Laurent Bocquet on César