Personne : André Cardinal

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chef de troupe
 Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1728-02-08 1730-06-01

Titre Date Rôle
Le Carnaval et la folie 1703-10-14 compositeur
Callirhoé Entre 1710 et 1719 compositeur
Issé 1697-10-07 compositeur
Amadis de Grèce 1699-03-25 compositeur
Omphale 1700-10-26 compositeur
Télémaque 1714-11-29 compositeur
Sémiramis 1718-12-04 compositeur
Marthésie, première reine des Amazones 1699-10-11 compositeur
Les Stratagèmes de l’amour 1726-03-28 compositeur
Les Eléments 1721-12-22 compositeur
L’Europe galante 1697-10-24 compositeur

  • Sujet Léris (de), 1763, pp. 557-558:
    Objet "DESTOUCHES (André-Cardinal), né à Paris en Avril 1672, fit toutes ses études au college des Jésuites, & eut envie de s'engager dans la Société. Il accompagna en 1688 le P. Tachard dans son second voyage à la Chine. De retour en France, Destouches changea d'idée, & entra en 1692 dans la seconde Compagnie des Mousquetaires, dans laquelle il servit jusqu'en 1696: ce fut pendant ce tems qu'il se sentit les talens qu'il avoit pour la / musique; il s'y livra ensuite tout entier, & apprit la composition du célebre Campra. Il fut enfin Surintendant de la Musique du Roi, & a composé plusieurs Opéra, qui sont, Issé, Amadis de Grece; Marthesie; Omphale; le Carnaval & la Folie; Callirhoé; Télémaque; Semiramis; les Elémens, avec Lalande, & les Stratagêmes de l'Amour. Il mourut à Paris le 3 Février 1749, & fut inhumé à Saint Roch. En 1731 il avoit été établi Inspecteur général de l'Opéra, avec une pension de 4000 liv. par an, qu'il a conservé le reste de sa vie."
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  • Sujet BNF, catalogue :
    Objet "Destouches, André Cardinal (1672-1749) - forme savante à valeur internationale.
    Naissance : 1672-04 - Mort : 1749-02-07.
    Compositeur. - Inspecteur général de l'Académie royale de musique (1713-1730), surintendant de la musique de la chambre (1718), directeur de l'Académie royale de musique (1728-1730). - Fils d'Étienne Cardinal, seigneur des Touches et de Guilleville, prit le nom de Destouches en 1694. - Baptisé le 6 avril 1672."
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  • Sujet Reference
    Objet Benoit (1992) p. 230-1.
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet James R. ANTHONY: 'Destouches, André Cardinal', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "André Cardinal, whose father Etienne Cardinal, Seigneur des Touches et de Guilleville, was a wealthy Parisian merchant, did not take the patronym Destouches until his father's death in 1694. From 1681 to 1686 he was schooled by the Jesuits of the rue St-Jacques. Imbued with a sense of adventure, he left France in January 1687 with Father Gui Tachard, who was making a second voyage to Siam. He returned in July 1688 and four years later joined the 2nd Company of the King's Musketeers (the ‘Mousquetaires Noirs’) with whom he took part in the siege of Namur. He apparently discovered his musical gifts in camp bivouacs. He learnt to play the guitar and composed some airs sérieux et à boire. Encouraged by his success, he left the army in 1694 ‘in order to devote himself to music’(Titon du Tillet). André Campra seems to have been his only teacher; in 1697 he permitted Destouches to contribute three airs to his opéra ballet, L'Europe galante.
    Because of his social position (Le Cerf de la Viéville always wrote of him as ‘Mr. des Touches’), Destouches moved with ease in aristocratic circles. He was a friend of the Prince of Conti and the Duke of Vendôme; his most important friend was Antoine de Grimaldi, the future Prince of Monaco, a man of cultivated taste and himself an amateur musician. Through Grimaldi's efforts, Destouches was brought to the attention of Louis XIV. The pastorale-héroïque Issé was first performed at a concert at Fontainebleau on 7 October 1697 before an illustrious audience that included the exiled King and Queen of England. It was an immediate success and Destouches's future was secured. Louis XIV gave him 200 louis with the comment that ‘since Lully no music had given him so much pleasure’(Titon du Tillet).
    On 8 January 1713 Louis XIV appointed Destouches to a newly created position, inspecteur général of the Académie Royale de Musique. For ‘maintaining order and discipline’he received a 4000 livre pension. At the request of Lalande, and thanks to the influence of the regent (whom he had known in military service), Destouches was appointed surintendant de la musique de la chambre (8 February 1718). On 15 January 1724 he married Anne-Antoinette de Reynold de la Ferrière. On 28 September 1727, after the death of Lalande, he became maître de musique de la chambre. When Nicolas de Francine retired from the directorship of the Académie Royale de Musique, Destouches took over this important post (8 February 1728), only to abandon it along with that of inspector general on 1 June 1730.
    Beginning in 1725, Destouches organized and directed concerts for Queen Maria Leszcynska […] The accounts of the menus plaisirs for the single year 1727 show that 46 concerts took place under his direction at Versailles in the queen's apartments.
    Destouches remained active musically even in his last years. At 70, he conducted the orchestra for a masked ball given by the daughters of Louis XV, and he kept control of the queen's concerts until 1745. He died in his elegant home (today, 4 rue St-Roch next to the church of St Roch), and was buried in the crypt of the Chapel of the Virgin in that church."
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