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Léris (de), 1763, p. 640:
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"MONTECLAIR (Michel). Ce Musicien, natif de Chaumont en Bassigny, mourut dans une maison de campagne près de Paris, au mois de Septembre 1737, âgé de soixante-onze ans. Il avoit été enfant de chœur à la Cathédrale de Langres, se fit connoître à Paris vers 1700, & fut le premier qui joua dans l'Orchestre de l'Opéra de la Contrebasse. Outre une méthode pour apprendre la musique, des principes pour le violon, des Trio, trois livres de Cantates, des Motets, &c. qu'il a composé, il a encore mis en musique les Opéra des Fêtes de l'Eté, & de Jephté."
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[extrait de:] James R. ANTHONY: 'Montéclair, Michel Pignolet de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 14 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Montéclair, Michel Pignolet [Pinolet] de (b Andelot, Haute-Marne, bap. 4 Dec 1667; d Aumont, 22 [not 27] Sept 1737). French composer, theorist and teacher. Michel Pignolet was the youngest of seven children born to the weaver Adrien Pignolet and Suzanne Galliot. On 27 January 1676 he entered the choir school at Langres Cathedral where he studied under Jean-Baptiste Moreau, director of the choir from October 1681 to February 1682. He added the name of ‘Montéclair’(a fortress in Andelot) to his own some time after his arrival in Paris in 1687, but signed himself ‘Pignolet dit Montéclair’as late as 1724. From the title-page of his Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la musique (1709), we learn that he was ‘formerly maître de la musique for the Prince of Vaudémont’, whom he followed to Italy.
Montéclair performed on the basse de violon in the Paris Opéra orchestra as early as 1699. He played so well on this instrument that he was designated ‘symphoniste du petit chœur’.
Montéclair, whose pupils included the daughters of François Couperin, was highly regarded as a teacher. […] In 1721 he and his nephew, François Boivin, founded a music shop on the rue St Honoré in the parish of St Eustache. In 1728, after François's marriage, Montéclair sold his interest for 9000 livres. […] Montéclair gave up teaching about 1735 but retained his position in the Opéra orchestra until 1 July 1737 when he received a pension from the king. He never married. At the time of his death he lived with a niece and nephew at 16 rue des Marmousets (now rue Chanoinesse) on the Ile de la Cité."
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