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Grove Music Online
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Marcelle BENOIT/Christina BASHFORD : 'Granouilhet, Jean de, Sieur de Sablières', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 13 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Granouilhet [Grenouillet], Jean de, Sieur de Sablières
(b Languedoc, 1627; d Paris, c1700). French composer. In 1669 he was appointed maître et intendant de la musique de chambre at the court of Philippe, Duke of Orléans. His pastoral opera Les amours de Diane et d’Endymion, to a libretto by Henry Guichard, was written for the duke’s wedding and staged at Versailles on 3 November 1671. The following year it was revised as Le triomphe de l’amour and performed before the king at St Germain-en-Laye. Although the music to both versions is lost, the opera is known to have embodied much machinery, dancing and spectacle, and as such was a successor to Cambert’s Pomone. Also in 1671 Granouilhet obtained from Pierre Perrin, who was in grave financial difficulties, part of the royal patent to perform operas (which he aimed to do in collaboration with Guichard). However, when in 1672 Lully acquired new lettres patentes from the king, Granouilhet was forced to abandon his plan. In 1679 he was summoned to Languedoc to direct the music that formed part of the festivities organized at Pézenas and Montpellier to mark the signing of the peace treaty with Spain. He produced there an aristocratic divertissement celebrating the two nations, to a text by M de Bray, given under the auspices of Cardinal de Bonsy, Archbishop of Narbonne; the music for this too is lost."
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