Jean-François Lalouette

Jean-François Lalouette

Jean-François Lalouette (* 1651 in Paris ; † August 31, 1728 there ) was a French composer and church musician of the Baroque.

Life

Jean-François Lalouette was a choirboy at Saint-Eustache , later he learned from Jean Baptiste Lully whose secretary he was temporarily. He studied violin with Guy Leclerc , a violinist of the Grande Bande . Lully used Lalouette as a violinist in his opera projects at the Académie royale de Musique. As Lully's secretary, the latter is said to have entrusted him with the composition of transitional passages in his operas. After disputes with Lully over an opera that was poorly received by the king, and after Laloutte boasted several times that some of the most beautiful arias in Lully's operas were his, he was permanently removed from the court in 1687.

Lalouette then devoted his work mainly to church music. From 1693 he was music director at the Cathedral of Rouen , from 1695 to 1697 at Notre Dame de Versailles and 1697–1698 in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois . In 1700 he succeeded André Campra as choirmaster of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral . He held this position until his resignation in 1726, when he received an annual pension of 400 livres. Also in 1726 his Miserere was performed at the Concert Spirituel .

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Laloutte composed a number of motets for large choir and orchestra that have not survived. Two collections of small motets from 1726 and 1730 as well as two masses , one of which appeared in print in 1744, have survived. An opera that was performed in 1678, as well as some instrumental music, have been lost.

Individual evidence

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