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Grove Music Online
Objet
Nicholas ANDERSON : 'Guédon de Presles, Honoré-Claude', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Guédon [Guesdon] de Presles, Honoré-Claude [Prêles, Honoré-Claude de]
(b late 17th century; d c1730). French composer and singer. At some time he lived at Versailles in the Avenue de St Cloud, and he probably died in Paris some time after 1729. A royal commission in 1723 granted him a ten-year privilege to publish his works with Ballard, beginning with Pièces tant vocales qu'instrumentales. The document describes him as Ordinaire de la musique de la chambre et de la chapelle. Guédon de Presles appears to have been a singer as well as a composer; a report by Dufrény notes that on 9 November 1722, while the better forces of the Académie Royale were at Fontainebleau, the actors who remained in Paris gave a performance of Lully's Persée at the Palais Royal, attended by the king, with Signor Guédon in the part of Mercury. If not a permanent member of the cast, he must have been accustomed to stand in for regular singers in their absence."
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