Personne : Jean-François Lallouette

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
Le Mariage de Bacchus et d’Ariane (1685-09-04) compositeur 1685-09-04

  • BNF, catalogue (nom & dates) :
    "Lallouette, Jean-François (1651-1728) - forme savante à valeur internationale. Forme(s) rejetée(s) : < Lalouette, Jean-François. Naissance : 1651 - Mort : 1728-08-31."
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  • BNF, catalogue :
    "Violoniste et compositeur, élève de Lully et de Guy Leclerc. - Batteur de mesure à l'Académie royale de Musique de 1668 à 1677. 1678-1679: au service de la duchesse régente de Savoie. 1692: maître de chapelle de Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois à Paris; travaille pour le théâtre des Jésuites à Paris. 1693-1695: maître de la musique de la cathédrale de Rouen, puis de celle de Versailles en 1695. 1700: maître des chœurs de Notre-Dame de Paris."
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  • Grove Music Online
    William HAYS, Eric MULARD: 'Lallouette, Jean François', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 10 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Lallouette [Lalouette], Jean François (b Paris, 1651; d Paris, 31 Aug 1728). French composer. He studied composition with Lully, who appointed him as his secretary and as time-beater at the Opéra and asked him to fill in the inner parts of certain of his works, a task at which he became so adept that he began to attract attention. When he reportedly boasted of having written some of the best parts of Lully’s Isis (1677) he was dismissed. Isis, however, displeased Louis XIV because of its thinly disguised and unflattering portrayal of Mme de Montespan in the character of Juno. The work was withdrawn, not to be performed again until 1704, and Philippe Quinault, the librettist, also was dismissed. Lully came through the affair unscathed, and one must wonder if Lallouette was a scapegoat. He was appointed composer of French music to the Savoy court at Turin in 1678, but was dismissed in 1679, possibly because in over a year he had produced only one composition, a three-part serenata, performed on 14 May 1678. He probably returned to Paris, where he composed an opera (c1678–80, Paris; lost); on 27 January 1681 the king’s secretary wrote to a M. de la Régnie informing him that the king forbade further performances of it on the grounds that it violated Lully’s privilege. Lallouette competed unsuccessfully in 1683 for one of the four positions of sous-maître at the royal chapel. The post was awarded to Pascal Collasse, who had succeeded him as Lully’s secretary; it is likely that Lully intervened on Collasse’s behalf and against Lallouette.
    Lallouette later visited Rome and served in ecclesiastical posts in Paris and Rouen; between 1695 and 1700, according to one source, he was busy with a four-act opera, Europe. It is established that in 1692 he was living near St Germain-l’Auxerrois, Paris, and he may have been employed there. On 7 December 1693 he was made choirmaster of Rouen Cathedral, defeating Nicolas Bernier for the post; he remained there until 15 February 1695. In 1700 he became choirmaster of Notre Dame, Paris, succeeding Capra. In his day Lallouette was a respected and popular musician and teacher. Among his stage works, all now lost, were also ballet airs and incidental music; most of his surviving music is sacred."
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