Louis-August Papavoine

{{Short description|French violinist and composer}}

Louis-August Papavoine was a French violinist and composer. His first name is uncertain, as is his birth and death information. He is believed to have been born in Normandy about 1720, and probably died in Marseilles about 1793. In 1752, he published Six simphonies op.1, dedicated to "le Marquis de la Bourdonnaye, Conseiller d’État, Intendant de Rouen." From 1756–1758, he wrote orchestral and chamber works.

In 1761, his opera Les deux amies, ou le vieux garçon, also known as Le Vieux Coquet, ou les deux amies,{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tufyxF0tXvkC&q=philidor+herne+le+chasseur&pg=PA90 |title = Shakespeare Survey|isbn = 9780521523547|last1 = Nicoll|first1 = Allardyce|date = 28 November 2002| publisher=Cambridge University Press }} the earliest known operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, premiered in Paris. According to Winton Dean, it was "killed by its libretto after one performance."Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori. Arden Shakespeare Third Series. London: Bloomsbury, 2000, 90, also citing Dean's article "Shakespeare and Opera" in Phyllis Hartnell (ed.). Shakespeare and Music. 1964, 89-175, 120.