Pierre de La Garde (10 February 1717,
Crécy-la-Chapelle – c.1792) was a French composer and
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...
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[''L'ecole francaise de violon, de Lully a Viotti: etudes d'histoire'' Volume 1 ]Lionel de La Laurencie
Lionel de La Laurencie (24 July 1861 – 21 November 1933) was a French musicologist and first president of the 1917 founded ''Société française de musicologie'' (French association of musicologists) from 1917 to 1920 and from 1931 to 1933.
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– 1922 "Then he thinks of being replaced in his offices of royal music; On March 3, 1750, Pierre de La Garde received, on his resignation, a patent of composer of the music of the chamber" He was music master to the daughters of
Louis XV. His surviving compositions are mainly lightweight, composed for himself to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. His
opéra-ballet ''Aeglé'' (1748), of which a copy survives in the
Musée de l'Amérique française, has been revived in Canada, and his comic cantata ''La Sonate,'' commencing "N’admirés vous pas ce tableau...," was recorded by
Dominique Visse.
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French operatic baritones
French Baroque composers
French male composers
1717 births
1790s deaths
18th-century French composers
18th-century French male musicians
Year of death uncertain