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Grove Music Online
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Marie-Thérèse BOUQUET-BOYER : 'La Pierre, Paul de', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2 April 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"La Pierre, Paul de
(b Avignon, bap. 7 Jan 1612; d Turin, 1689). French composer, violinist and dancing-master. In 1640 he appeared in the Ballet du bureau des adresses performed before the Duke of Enghien at Dijon. He was a violinist in Avignon in 1641, together with his father Jean, and in 1643 he settled in Montpellier, where he was in charge of the violin band until 1661, taking part in numerous performances in Nîmes, Béziers, Narbonne and Pézenas. He collaborated with Molière on the Ballet des incompatibles while the Etats Généraux were in session in Montpellier in 1654–5. In 1660 he and his brother Guillaume took the band of violins and hautbois to Turin to participate in the marriage celebrations of Princess Margherita of Savoy. They both settled there in 1662, and Paul became director of the Avignon violin band (1672) and dancing-master to the king (1662) and to several members of his court. Between 1662 and 1689 he composed most of the dance tunes for ballets and operas performed at the court of Savoy. […] He was granted a pension in 1685, but continued to write choreographies and musical interludes (none of which survive) for the operas Amore vendicato by Carisio (1688), Leonida in Sparta by Sebenico (1689) and Silvio, re degli Albani by Domenico Gabrielli (1689); these were his last choreographic collaborations with his son Paolo. He married his second wife, Maddalena Lajarde, in 1639 (the marriage to his first wife was annulled in 1637). With Maddalena he had at least 11 children, including Paolo. Most of his sons were violinists, dancers and composers in Turin."
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