Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (or Thomas Bertin de la Doué) (1680 – 6 February 1743) was a French composer of the

Baroque era The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (i ...

. He worked as an organist for the

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, as a musician for the Duc d'Orléans and as a violinist and harpsichordist at the

Paris Opéra The Paris Opera ( ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be kn ...

(between 1714 and 1734). He wrote sacred music, songs, trios for two violins and

basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...

, and several operas.

Operas

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tragédie en musique ''Tragédie en musique'' (, musical tragedy), also known as ''tragédie lyrique'' (, lyric tragedy), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century. Operas i ...

'', 1706) (with François Bouvard) *'' Diomède'' (''tragédie en musique'', 1710) *''

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'' (''tragédie en musique'', 1712) *''Le jugement de Pâris'' (''

pastorale héroïque Pastorale refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood. In Baroque music, a pastorale is a movement of a melody in thirds over a drone bass, recalling the Christmas music of ''pifferari'', players of the trad ...

'', 1718) *''Les plaisirs de la campagne'' (''

opéra-ballet Opéra-ballet (; plural: ''opéras-ballets'') is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, combining elements of opera and ballet, "that grew out of the '' ballets à entrées'' of the early seventeen ...

'', 1719)

Sources

Le magazine de l'opéra baroque by Jean-Claude Brenac (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bertin de la Doue, Toussaint 1680 births 1743 deaths French Baroque composers French opera composers French male opera composers 18th-century French classical composers 18th-century French male musicians 17th-century French male musicians