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Léris (de), 1763, p. 584 :
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"GERVAIS, Maître de la Musique de feu M. le Duc d'Orléans, Régent, & ensuite de celle de la Chapelle du Roi, donna depuis 1697, trois Opéra, qui sont: Méduse; Hypermnestre, & les Amours de Prothée. Il mourut à Paris le 15 Janvier 1744, âgé d'environ soixante-douze ans."
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Grove Music Online
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JEAN-PAUL MONTAGNIER: 'Gervais, Charles-Hubert', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 8 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Gervais, Charles-Hubert
(b Paris, 19 Feb 1671; d Paris, 15 Jan 1744). French composer. The son of Jeanne Mercier and Hubert Gervais, who was garçon de la chambre to the Duke of Orléans (brother of Louis XIV), he grew up in the Palais Royal, where he probably studied music with the duke's musicians. He may also have been a page in the choir school of his parish of St Eustache. From 1697 he was ordinaire de la musique to Philippe de Bourbon, Duke of Chartres (who became Duke of Orléans in 1701 and Regent of France in 1715), and succeeded Sieur de Sablières in the position of maître de musique de la chambre in 1700. He was subsequently made intendant (perhaps in 1701) and then surintendant (perhaps in 1722). In this capacity he taught music to the Duke of Chartres, who had a great love of Italian music, and helped him to compose two operas, Penthée (c1703) and Suite d'Armide, ou Jérusalem délivrée (c1704). On 18 October 1701 Gervais married Françoise du Vivier (d1732), who bore him three children. He succeeded his father as garçon de la chambre on 24 April 1702 and retained that appointment until his death (he seems to have lost his post as surintendant when the regent died). Gervais had his first public successes with his opera Hypermnestre (1716) and his ballet Les amours de Protée (1720). In January 1723, at the regent's request, Michel-Richard de Lalande officially relinquished three of his four three-month terms of duty as sous-maître of the Chapelle Royale. The three posts were then redistributed, on a non-competitive basis, to André Campra, Nicolas Bernier and Gervais. In 1726 Lalande's position fell vacant on his death, and his duties were shared between the remaining sous-maîtres. When Bernier died in 1734 Campra and Gervais carried out this work on their own until 1738, when Henri Madin and Antoine Blanchard were appointed to help them. Several of Gervais's motets were enthusiastically received at the Concert Spirituel between 1736 and 1738, and five continued to be sung at Versailles until 1792."
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