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[extrait de:] Edith BORROFF / Anne PIÉJUS : 'Moreau, Jean-Baptiste', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 26 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Moreau, Jean-Baptiste
(b Angers, ?1656; d Paris, 24 Aug 1733). French composer. Moreau is thought to have been a choirboy at Angers Cathedral […]. After a time in Paris he became maître de musique at Langres Cathedral from September 1681 to February 1682; […] Moreau is next heard of in Paris in January 1687, when a Te Deum by him (now lost) was sung at Saint Cosme in thanksgiving for Louis XIV’s recovery from illness. He obtained his first royal commission, for the divertissement Les bergers de Marly, in March 1688 just as Louis was organizing work at the school for young noblewomen founded in 1682 by Mme de Maintenon and established at Saint-Cyr in 1686. The king invited him to provide music for the school and it is in this connection that he achieved his most lasting fame, particularly in collaboration with Racine. Moreau set Racine’s Esther in 1689; the performance of the latter was attended by the king, Moreau receiving a royal pension as a result of his appreciation, and a gratuity from Mme de Maintenon. In addition to Esther, they produced Athalie for Saint-Cyr in 1691.
Moreau seems to have been very unstable both professionally and in his social life and he was removed from his post at Saint-Cyr in the years following the writing of Athalie. He was appointed surintendant of music for Languedoc in November 1692 (in succession to André Mallet) and he held the post until January 1706. […]
In spite of his distance from Saint-Cyr, Moreau wrote another work for the school, the intermèdes to Jonathas, in 1699 or 1700 […] Moreau was appointed maître de musique at Béziers Cathedral in December 1704, but left his post in March 1705."
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