Esprit Antoine Blanchard

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Esprit Antoine Blanchard

Antoine Blanchard - also Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (born February 29, 1696 in Pernes-les-Fontaines , † April 19, 1770 in Versailles ) was a French music master , royal conductor at the French court and composer of the musical baroque and pre-classical periods .

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As a child, Antoine Blanchard was a singer in the choir of the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence and a student of Guillaume Poitevin . In addition to music and composition , he studied theology , Latin and mathematics . In 1717, at the age of only 21, he was appointed Maître de Musique (music master) of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille and subsequently worked in the same position in the Cathedral of Toulon , the Cathedral of Besançon and the Cathedral of Amiens .

Blanchard is considered one of the most important composers of the French Grand Motet . As early as 1732, his motets had established themselves in the programs of the Paris Concert Spirituel and the performance of the motet Laudate Dominum in the presence of King Louis XV. in 1737 paved the way for an appointment to the Chapelle Royal at Versailles in 1738, where he remained in service until his death. In 1761 he was awarded the title of Royal Kapellmeister ( Maître de Musique de la Chapelle du Roy ) and the honorary title of Écuyer, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roy .

Works

  • 46 motets for solos, choir and orchestra (archived in the Bibliothèque nationale de France )
  • Magnificat (1741)
  • Te Deum (1744)
  • In Exitu Israel - Motet for choir and orchestra (1749)
  • Choral and orchestral works

literature

  • Bernadette Lespinard: La vie et l`oeuvre d`Antoine Blanchard.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernadette Lespinard:  Blanchard, Antoine. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ^ Antoine-Esprit Blanchard . In: diesis & bemolle . January 6, 2018 ( wordpress.com [accessed October 30, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Blanchard, Esprit Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanchard, Esprit-Joseph-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music master and Royal Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernes-les-Fontaines , France
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1770
Place of death Versailles