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Grove Music Online
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David TUNLEY: 'Renier, Nicolas', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 9 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Renier [Regnier], Nicolas
(d ? Paris, c1731). French composer. He was active in Paris during the first half of the 18th century. Renier's reputation as a composer rested upon his large output of airs and his eight cantatas, two of which (Le jugement de Paris and L'Amour aveuglé par la folie) were performed at Philidor's concerts at the Tuileries in 1729, the year after their publication. On these occasions (January 5 and 22) the two soloists were well-known singers, Mlles Le Maure and Bourbonnais. In the previous year the same series of concerts included a divertissement by Renier (performed 7 February, repeated 9 February) but its title was not given by the Mercure de France when it reported these concerts. No divertissement by Renier survives. Of his cantatas, Ulisse et Pénélope is perhaps the most attractive; its seven movements are fused into one, after the manner of an operatic scena. The inclusion of airs by Renier in various collections published posthumously confirms their popularity. A retrospective catalogue issued by the publisher J.-P. Le Clerc in 1742 lists two ‘concerts’of sonatas for two flutes by Renier but they are lost. An opera Thésée was attributed to him by Eitner but doubts have been cast on its authorship."
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