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[extrait de:] FRÉDÉRIC ROBERT : 'Guichard, Louis-Joseph', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Guichard, Louis-Joseph
(b Versailles, 25 Oct 1752; d Paris, 25 March 1829). French singer and composer. From 1760 to 1768 he served as page for the musique du roi. In 1775 he made his first documented public appearance, singing a motet by Baur Schmit at the Concert Spirituel; he continued to perform at the Concert Spirituel until 1779, when he took part in a particularly disastrous performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, after which he never returned. In 1775 he joined the chapel of the Marshal of Noailles, and in 1776 he became an ordinaire de la musique de la chambre; at about that time he joined the Société Académique des Enfants d’Apollon. He was appointed professor of singing at the newly opened Ecole Royale de Chant in 1784, and in 1793 he was named to the Comité des Artistes de l’Opéra. When the Paris Conservatoire opened in 1795, Guichard was hired to teach vocalization. He remained at the Conservatoire until 1819, teaching singing from 1800 and from 1816 working with opera students. He continued to perform in public until the age of 61. His works include Nicette et Colin, ou Le fat dans les départements, a lost opéra comique, performed in Paris in 1799, some revolutionary hymns and marches (some of which have been attributed to François Guichard), and a few romances and instrumental pieces published in contemporary anthologies."
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