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JANE M. BOWERS: 'La Barre, Michel de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 8 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"La Barre, Michel de
(b c1675; d 15 March 1745). French composer and flautist. As his first instrumental work, a set of six trio suites for violins, flutes, obœs and continuo, was published in 1694, it seems likely that he was born by c1675. The first reference to him as a musician dates from 1699, when the painter André Bouys presented to the Salon nine portraits, one of which was entitled ‘M. Labarre, ordinaire de l’Académie de Musique’. In 1700, during the course of a five-month tour of France organized in honour of the dukes of Burgundy and Berry, La Barre travelled to Spain as a player of the ‘flûte allemande’for the Count of Ayen. During the same year his opéra-ballet, Le triomphe des arts, was published, and its title-page reveals that he also played at the Académie Royale de Musique. In 1702 La Barre brought out his first book of solo suites for transverse flute and bass, the first solo pieces for flute to appear in print in any country […]. In May 1704 he took over Antoine Piesche’s position in the Musettes et Hautbois de Poitou, and in 1705 the privilege which he received to publish his comédie-ballet La vénitienne shows that he was a flautist in the royal chamber music as well. According to Claude Parfaict, he was regarded as the best flautist of his time, and was particularly celebrated for his very expressive playing.
[…] In 1725, when his last extant instrumental work appeared, he was still playing in the royal chamber music, although he had retired from the Académie Royale de Musique by 1721. He resigned from the Musettes et Hautbois de Poitou towards the end of 1730; except for his making a will on 8 March 1741, nothing further is known about his activities until the time of his death."
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JÉRÔME DE LA GORCE: 'La Barre, Michel de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 8 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"La Barre, Michel de
(b Paris, c1675; d Paris, 15 March 1745). French composer. An excellent performer on the ‘German’or transverse flute, he had a brilliant career as an instrumentalist in Paris and at court, where from 1703 to 1730 he played in the Musique de l’Ecurie et de la Chambre. It is not known when he joined the orchestra of the Paris Opéra, but he was there in 1700 and by 1704 his annual salary was 600 livres; in 1713 he had the honour of featuring among the best soloists of the petit chœur. From 1694 onwards he composed instrumental and vocal pieces, trios and airs sérieux et à boire. In collaboration with the librettist Antoine Houdar de Lamotte, he wrote two scores for performance at the Opéra. The first was Le triomphe des arts (F-Po), an opéra-ballet for which he was paid 3000 livres; according to remarks in the Lettre d’un lanterniste de Thoulouze à l’autheur du ballet des arts, it was a failure at its first performance (16 May 1700), being ‘attacked from beginning to end’. The second work, the ballet La Vénitienne (26 May 1705; F-Pn), seems to have been received more warmly, since one of its acts was subsequently revived in 1711 at the Opéra, on which occasion Marie Antier made her début. La Barre’s dramatic music shows the influence of Campra."
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