René Ouvrard (1624–1694) was a French priest, writer and composer. Ouvrard was born in

Chinon Chinon () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginning in the late 15th and early 16th centuri ...

. He received orders and became

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of the cathedral of

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and the

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of Paris, then he was a

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in Tours. He became a priest in 1682. He died in

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Main works

* ''Secret pour composer en musique par un art nouveau'', 1660 * ''L'Art et la Science des nombres en latin et en français'', 1677 * ''Défense de l'ancienne tradition des Églises de France'', 1678 * ''Histoire de la musique chez les Hébreux, les Grecs et les Romains''

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René Ouvrard, on ''Mots d'auteurs''
1624 births 1694 deaths People from Chinon French composers French male composers Roman Catholic writers 17th-century French Roman Catholic priests French music theorists French male non-fiction writers 17th-century classical composers 17th-century male musicians {{France-RC-clergy-stub