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Grove Music Online
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David TUNLEY/Catherine MASSIP : 'La Roche, François de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"La Roche, François de
(d Vaux, 23 Dec 1676). French composer and singer. The records show that François de La Roche, an haute-contre, was one of the eight ‘chantres ordinaires de la musique’in the ensemble of Gaston d’Orléans, brother of Louis XIII, and took part in the divertissements performed at the prince’s court in the 1650s. After his patron’s death in 1661 he entered the service of the surintendant Fouquet. He published five books of airs de cours in three and four parts (in 1648, 1649, 1652, 1655 and 1658), of which only the haute-contre, tenor and bass parts are extant. The first book is dedicated to the chaplain of Gaston d’Orléans, and the third to the prince himself. His airs (airs sérieux and a few airs à boire) are in the same tradition as those of Jean de Cambefort, published at the same period. A solo air by him is contained in the collection Airs de cour et airs à boire (F-Pn dated 1645–80). (C. Massip: ‘Le Mécénat musical de Gaston d’Orléans’, L’âge d’or du mécénat (1598–1661): Paris 1983, ed. R. Mousnier and J. Mesnard (Paris, 1985), 383–91)."
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