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[extrait de:] Suzanne CLERCX-LEJEUNE: 'Maldere, Pierre van', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 4 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Maldere, Pierre van (b Brussels, 16 Oct 1729; d Brussels, 1 Nov 1768). South Netherlands composer. He may have received his earliest teaching at the royal chapel in Brussels where, from 1746 he is listed as a violinist. In that period the chapel musicians were required to perform whenever Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor-general of the Netherlands, had music at dinner or held a concert. The prince, impressed by van Maldere’s talent and charm, furthered his career. On his authority van Maldere spent two seasons in Dublin (1751–3) conducting the ‘Philarmonick Concerts’. On 15 August 1754 he played in the Paris Concert Spirituel and around that time was appointed director of the prince’s concerts.
In July 1756 van Maldere’s first opéra comique, Le déguisement pastoral, was also performed in Vienna, at Schönbrunn, and on 5 November 1758 Les amours champêtres, another opéra comique, was also performed there. The next day the prince returned to the Netherlands, and he demonstrated his personal attachment by appointing van Maldere ‘valet de chambre’. He continued his career in the prince’s entourage accompanying him on his travels. In 1762 he obtained a seven-year contract as director of the Brussels Grand Theatre; there he conducted, and was in charge of choosing the repertory: tragedies and comedies of the French theatre as well as opéras comiques which he had composed (La bagarre), arranged (Desbrosses’Les sœurs rivales) or written in collaboration (Le soldat par amour). Overwhelmed by work and by financial worries, he eventually resigned in 1767."
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