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Grove Music Online
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Bernadette LESPINARD: 'Blanchard, Antoine', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 31 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Blanchard, Antoine [Antonius] dit Esprit
(b Pernes-les-Fontaines, 28 Feb 1696, d Versailles, 10 April 1770). French composer. The son of a doctor, he joined the choir school at the cathedral of St Sauveur, Aix-en-Provence, at the age of eight. His teacher was Poitevin, who had also taught Gilles, Campra and Pellegrin. He was dismissed in 1715 and in 1717 was appointed maître de musique of St Victor, Marseilles. Between 1720 and 1721 he spent a few months at Toulon Cathedral, and in 1732 he became maître de musique of Besançon Cathedral, where Rousseau sought lessons from him. At this time he was connected with the Concert Spirituel, where his motet Cantate Domino … quia mirabilia was performed in 1732. On 31 March 1734 he was appointed to Amiens Cathedral, while maintaining contact with Paris. According to Giberti the motet Laudate Dominum quoniam bonus was performed before the king in 1737, ‘thanks to the friendship of Campra’, whom Blanchard had met during the period 1714–16, when Campra was director of the Académie de Musique, Marseilles. In June 1738 he succeeded Nicolas Bernier as one of the four sous-maîtres of the Chapelle Royale, Versailles (the others were Gervais, Campra and Madin), a post he held until his death. After Campra's death Blanchard became maître des pages de la chambre and after Madin's death he taught the pages de la chapelle, but in 1754 he sold back this office, abandoning his clerical collar to marry Magdelaine Jovelet, who bore him two sons. In 1742 he was granted a priory near Saint Malo and the income from an abbey. The reorganization of the musique de roi in 1761 effected the change of his title from sous-maître to maître de la chapelle, a post he shared with the abbé Gauzargues. In 1764 he was ennobled and awarded the Grand Cordon de l'Ordre de St Michel, which had been left vacant by the death of Rameau. He was one of the adjudicators who chose Giroust as the double winner of a competition held by the directors of the Concert Spirituel in 1767. Blanchard's last-recorded public appearance was in 1768, when he conducted his De profundis at the funeral of Queen Maria Leszcinska."
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