Esprit Antoine Blanchard
Illustration — Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (29 February 1696 – 19 April 1770) was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France. Blanchard was born in Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696. His father was a physician.
Esprit Antoine Blanchard
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- Born
- 1696 · Pernes-les-Fontaines.
- Died
- 1770 · Versailles.
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- France
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- composer
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- classical music · Baroque music
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- French
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Illustration — Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (29 February 1696 – 19 April 1770) was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France. Blanchard was born in Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696. His father was a physician.
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1696
Esprit Antoine Blanchard born at Pernes-les-Fontaines.
1770
Esprit Antoine Blanchard died on 10 April 1770.
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He was a choirboy at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. He died, aged 74, at Versailles.
• Eleven of his grands motets were published by Marc-François Bêche, a highly esteemed singer of the Chapelle Royale, who had sung under Blanchard when he performed during the king's mass at Versailles. • Te Deum first performed on 26 October 1744 for the recovery of the king from the Alsace campaign, but rededicated on 12 May 1745 for the victory at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 as Cantique d'action de grâces pour les conquêtes de Louis XV. • In Exitu Israël composed in April 1749 for the Chapelle Royale and given again at the Concert Spirituel in 1763. Restored in 2003 by Michel Lefèvre and recorded 2004 by his Ensemble Jubilate de Versailles. • 46 Motets conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
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- 1.Tai Wai Li Marc-François Bêche's collection of eleven grands motets by Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard 1996
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