Jean-Odéo Demars
Jean-Odéo Demars (1695–1756) was an 18th-century French organist, composer and harpsichordist. Demars was born in Sézanne, Champagne (province), France, on 2 February 1695. In 1726, he became organist at the Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie church in Paris.
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Jean-Odéo Demars
- Born
- 1695 · Sézanne.
- Died
- 1756 · Paris.
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- France
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- organist · composer · harpsichordist
- Movements
- classical music · Baroque music
- Languages
- French
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Born at Sézanne in 1695, died in Paris in 1756.
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- 1.Notice de la BnF
- 2.Le contrat de mariage a été signé le 15: AN, MC/ET/I/367 15 février 1734, contrat de mariage entre Jean-Odo Demars, organiste des églises paroissiales de Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, et Geneviève-Françoise Legris, fille de Victor Legris, bourgeois de Paris, rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre.
- 3.AN MC, LIII/388, 12 novembre 1756, inventaire après décès de Jean Odo Demars (le subrogé tuteur est Etienne Demars, bourgeois de Paris). Recherches sur la musique française classique, 6, 1966, p. 251.
- 4.Sur Charles Demars, voir la notice de la base Musefrem.
- 5.« J'étois dans ma septième année, j'avois une belle voix, j'annonçois beaucoup de goût pour la musique; ma mère avoit pris des engagemens à Paris pour faire venir de la Basse-Bretagne, une jeune personne, fille de l'organiste de Vannes , excellente musicienne et jouant parfaitement du clavecin. [...] mademoiselle de Mars, c'étoit le nom de la jeune musicienne... » Mémoires inédits de madame la comtesse de Genlis pour servir à l'histoire des dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles, Paris et Londres, Colburn, tome 1, 1825, p. 18-19. De nombreux autres passages mentionnent ultérieurement Mlle de Mars. Voir Michel Brenet, « Madame de Genlis musicienne », Revue musicale S.I.M., 1912, p. 3. Numérisé sur gallica. Michel de Galzain, Archives et souvenirs du Morbihan pittoresque et disparu, 1962, p. 49 (M. de Galzain propose d'identifier Mlle de Mars avec Marie Charlotte Demars née à Vannes le 17octobre 1737).
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- B. Gustafson and D. Fuller, A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music, 1699–1780, Oxford, 1990
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