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[extrait de:] Laurie SHULMAN: 'Plantade, Charles-Henri', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Plantade, Charles-Henri
(b Pontoise, 14/19 Oct 1764; d Paris, 18/19 Dec 1839). French composer, cellist and teacher. As a youth he studied the cello, probably with J.-L. Duport; after his arrival in Paris he studied singing and composition with Langlé, the piano with Hüllmandel and the harp with Petrini. His first published works were sonatas for harp and collections of romances. These gained him recognition, and by 1797 he was music master at the Institut de St Denis. From 1799 to 1807 (and later, 1815–16 and 1818–28) he taught singing at the Paris Conservatoire; his most celebrated pupil there was Laure Cinti-Damoreau. Having become music master to Hortense de Beauharnais, who later became Queen of the Kingdom of Holland through her marriage to Louis Napoleon, Plantade was appointed maître de chapelle at the Dutch court from 1806 to 1810. […] Plantade was both singing master and stage director at the Paris Opéra from 1812 to 1815.
Until 1815 Plantade composed mostly stage works, but in 1816 he succeeded Persuis as music master to the royal chapel, a position he held throughout the reign of Charles X. In this capacity he wrote a number of religious works. With Cherubini and Lesueur, he supervised the musical events at the coronation of Charles X in 1825 […]"
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