Personne : Jacques Cochereau

• Genre homme
• Titre M.
• Naissance XVIIe siècle
• Mort 1734-07-17
• Métiers chanteur

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• Sujet Grove Music Online
  Objet 'Cochereau, Jacques', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
  "Cochereau, Jacques (b c1680; d Paris, 17 July 1734). French singer and composer. Fétis, Walther and Gerber all gave his date of death incorrectly as 5 May 1722. From 1702 to 1718 he played many of the leading haute-contre roles at the Académie Royale, including Idamante in Campra's Idomenée (1712), Jason in J.-F. Salomon's Medée (1713) and Léandre in Mouret's Les fêtes de Thalie (1714). In May 1703 he entered into a contract in which he promised, in return for a large sum of money, that he would continue to execute all the operatic roles required of him and would not leave without permission. From at least 1716 until his resignation in spring 1733 he held the post of ordinaire de la musique du Roi, frequently taking part in concerts at Versailles. According to Fétis, he was in the service of the Prince de Conti, but that is unsubstantiated in other sources. He gave singing and harpsichord lessons to the daughters of the Duke of Orléans at the abbey of Chelles, and according to Benoit, the self-styled ‘abbess’, Louise-Adelaïde, was rumoured to have become his mistress. His principal compositions were three volumes of airs sérieux et à boire: […]
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  M. Brenet: Les concerts en France sous l'ancien régime (Paris, 1900/R)
  M. Brenet: Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais (Paris, 1910/R)
  M. Benoit and N. Dufourcq: ‘Documents du minutier central: musiciens français du XVIIIe siècle’, RMFC, viii (1968), 243–56
  M. Benoit: Musiques de cour: chapelle, chambre, écurie, 1661–1733 (Paris, 1971)
  M. Benoit: Versailles et les musiciens du roi, 1661–1733 (Paris, 1971)."
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• Sujet Grove Music Online (Philip WELLER)
  Objet Philip WELLER : 'Cochereau, Jacques', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
  "Cochereau, Jacques (d Paris, 17 July 1734). French haute-contre. Having left the army to join the Opéra at Lille, he married an opera singer and moved to Paris, where he made his début at the Opéra in 1702. Initially singing minor parts, he was quickly pressed into more important Lully roles: Perseus (1703 and 1710 revivals), Mercury (Isis, 1704 and 1717), Bellérophon (1705 and 1718), Admetus (Alceste, 1706 and 1716), Renaud (Armide, 1713), Phaethon (1710), Alpheius (Proserpine, 1715) and Médor (Roland, 1716). He also sang in the revivals of Destouches’Amadis de Grèce (1711), Desmarets’Didon (1704; Aeneas), Marais’Alcide, ou la mort d’Hercule (1705 and 1716; Hercules), Collasse’s Thétis et Pélée (1699 and 1708; Peleus, with Desmatins and Journet respectively) and Desmarets and Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride (1711; Pylades, with Journet). Cochereau created such leading roles as Orestes in Bouvard and Bertin de la Doué’s Cassandre (1706) and Idamantes in Campra’s Idoménée (1712). Yet he apparently never overcame his native timidity, ‘ce qui jeta du froid dans son jeu’(Parfaict). He retired during the 1718–19 season, when his position within the company passed to Muraire.
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  E. Campardon: L’Académie royale de musique au XVIIIe siècle, i (Paris, 1884), 131–8."
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