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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] James R. ANTHONY : "Sicard, Jean", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Sicard, Jean [not Laurent]
(fl 2nd half of the 17th century and early 18th). French composer and singer. His most productive years were spent in Paris, where he was highly esteemed as the ‘famous Sicard who sings, teaches and composes very well’(Mercure galant, 1678). Titon du Tillet singled him out as one who ‘succeeded very well in [the composition of] airs à boire’. […] The year 1710 found Sicard in Marseilles directing the Académie Royale de Musique en Provence.
A total of 336 airs by Sicard were printed in 17 books which, except for a gap in 1672, he produced at the rate of one a year between 1666 and 1683. […]"
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