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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] David TUNLEY: 'Du Tartre, Jean-Baptiste', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Du Tartre [Dutartre], Jean-Baptiste
(d Paris, 1749). French composer. […] He worked in Paris as maître de musique, and may have been associated with the household of the Prince de Vaudémont, to whom most of his larger works are dedicated. Du Tartre's music became known in 1714 when his Miserere mei Deus, a motet for three soloists, choir and instruments, was twice performed by the Musique du Roi in the presence of the king. […] A few weeks later the cantata-like Divertissement pour la paix was sung before the Prince de Vaudémont, the following year receiving a performance at the Opéra, where shortly afterwards some of his airs were sung at a performance of Zéphire et Flore (presumably the opera by Lully's two sons which, written in 1688, enjoyed a single revival in 1715). His cantata La paix was twice performed at Philidor's concerts at the Tuileries (2 April 1728, 4 July 1729). Within the limits of an urbane, Rococo style, Du Tartre's music reveals a genuine melodic gift, seen at its best in Divertissement pour la paix, Homage funèbre, the cantata La volupté, and above all in the many airs sérieux et à boire which appeared in his own collections and in anthologies published in France and Holland up to the middle of the century."
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