Personne : Michel-Richard Lalande

Titre Date Rôle
Le Bailli arbitre 1737-07-21 auteur
Les Eléments 1721-12-22 compositeur
L’Amour berger 04-1683 compositeur
Ballet de la jeunesse 1686-01-28 compositeur
Le Palais de Flore 1689-01-05 compositeur
L’Amour fléchi par la constance 1697 compositeur
Eglogue 10-1697 compositeur
Les Fées 1699-09-24 compositeur
Ballet dansé aux intermèdes des Folies de Cardenio 1720-12-30 compositeur
Les Folies de Cardenio 1720-12-13 compositeur
Le Ballet de Trianon 12-1688 compositeur
Myrtil et Mélicerte 10-1698 compositeur
Ballet du jour de St Louis 1691-08-25 compositeur
Epithalame, pour le mariage du duc de Bourbon et Mlle de Nantes 1685-07-25 compositeur
Adonis 1696 compositeur
La Noce de village 1700-02-13 compositeur
L’Hymen champêtre 1700 compositeur
Divertissement sur la Paix 1713-07-14 compositeur

  • Grove Music Online
    James R. ANTHONY/Lionel SAWKINS: 'Lalande, Michel-Richard de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 9 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Lalande [La Lande, Delalande], Michel-Richard de (b Paris, 15 Dec 1657; d Versailles, 18 June 1726). Lalande was the 15th child of Michel Lalande, a Parisian master tailor, and Claude Dumoutiers. […]
    On 15 April 1667 Lalande (together with Marin Marais) entered the choir of the royal church of St Germain-l'Auxerrois, Paris, where he remained until 18 November 1672. […] To introduce Lalande to the public, weekly concerts of his earliest compositions were given at the home of his brother-in-law. In 1680, after Chaperon's transfer to the Ste-Chapelle, Paris, he invited Lalande (then aged 22) to contribute some of his Leçons de Ténèbres to the repertory in Holy Week. […]
    His skill as an organist was sufficient to gain him employment in four Paris churches: the Jesuit church of St Louis, the conventual church of Petit St Antoine, St Gervais and St Jean-en-Grève. For the Collège de Clermont (known later as the Collège Louis-le-Grand) he also composed intermèdes and choruses (now lost) for the dramatic productions of the Jesuits. […]
    In 1683, when the sous-maîtres Du Mont and Robert retired from the royal chapel, the king ordered a competition to replace them; 35 musicians took part […], four were chosen to share the responsibilities by quarters: Coupillet (January), Collasse (April), Minoret (July) and Lalande (October). […] A little over a year later, in January 1685, he was appointed compositeur de la musique de la chambre, sharing half the year with Collasse, the other half being controlled by Pierre Robert. In January 1689, aged 31, he became a surintendant de la musique de la chambre, the most coveted musical post at court […]. In September 1693, after the enforced retirement of Coupillet […], Lalande added the quarter of January as sous-maître to that of October. In March 1704, on the retirement of Collasse, the king gave the April quarter to ‘nostre bien aimé Richard Michel de La Lande’. In 1714 the Marquis de Dangeau noted in his journal for 29 September: ‘[…] The maître de musique for the July quarter … the Abbé Minoret, has retired’. […] Thus, from 1 July 1715, the music of the royal chapel was under the control of one man for the first time […]; in 1700, after Robert's death, Lalande was given three-quarter control as compositeur de la musique de la chambre, and following Collasse's death in 1709 all charges for this office were his. From 1689, when he was appointed surintendant de la musique de la chambre (replacing Jean-Louis Lully), he shared the year with Jean-Baptiste Bœsset. In 1695 Bœsset sold his charge of maître de musique de la chambre to Lalande for 16,000 livres.
    In July 1684 Lalande married the singer Anne Rebel, daughter of Jean Rebel, ordinaire de la musique du roy, and half-sister of Jean-Fery Rebel, the violinist, conductor and director of the Paris Opéra. […] The couple had two daughters, Marie-Anne (b 1686) and Jeanne (b 1687), both of whom became well-known singers […]
    Lalande lived comfortably as a result of royal appointments and lucrative pensions, which included one of 6000 livres paid to him and his wife from 1713 out of the revenues of the Paris Opéra. […]
    After the king's death in 1715, when the Regency court moved to Paris, Lalande gradually abandoned his heavy responsibilities. In doing so he made sure that his best pupils, André Cardinal Destouches, François Collin de Blamont and Jean-François de La Porte, received good positions.[…]
    Lalande remarried in 1723; his bride was Marie-Louise de Cury (1692–1775), a daughter of the Princess of Conti's surgeon. They had one daughter, Marie-Michelle (1724–81)."
    AS
  • LERIS (1763)
    pp. 607-608 : "La Lande (Michel-Richard de), naquit à Paris le 15 Décembre 1657. Il fut placé enfant de Chœur à S. Germain-l'Auxerrois par son pere & sa mere, Me Tailleur, dont il étoit le quinzieme enfant, & enseigna ensuite la musique avec réputation. Il s'attacha aussi à l'Orgue & au clavecin, & y réussit. Il devint Surintendant de la musique du Roi, Maître de Musique & Compositeur ordinaire de la Chapelle & de la Chambre de Sa Majesté, Chevalier de Saint Michel, & est fort connu par les excellens Motets qu'il a composés au nombre de soixante. Il est aussi Auteur de la musique des Ballets de la Jeunesse ; de Trianon, & de l'Amour fléchi par la constance ; de celle d'un Opéra de Melicerte, non représenté ; & de celle des Elémens, conjointement avec Destouches. Il mourut à Versailles le 18 Juin 1726."
    SAF
  • BEAUCHAMPS (1735)
    Vol. 3, pp. 186 : "1686. Ballet de la Jeunesse…. … la musique du sieur de Lalande, l'un des quatre maîtres de la musique de la chapelle. C'est son premier ouvrage pour des spectacles…."
    SAF
  • CHAMFORT (1776)
    Vol. 3, pp. 566 : "La Lande, (Michel Richard de) né à Paris en 1657, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roi, &c…."
    SAF