Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (Pernes, 29 February 1696 - Versailles, 19 April 1770) was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, and regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France.[1]
Blanchard was born at Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696. His father was a physician. He was a choirboy at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence.
Works, editions and recordings [link]
- Eleven of his grands motets were published by Marc-François Bêche, a highly esteemed singer of the Chapelle Royale, who had sung under Blanchard his music when performed during the king's mass at Versailles.
- Te Deum first performed 26 October 1744 for the recovery of the king from the Alsace campaign, but rededicated 12 May 1745 for the victory at Fontenoy as Cantique d'action de grâces pour les conquêtes de Louis XV.
- In Exitu Israël composed April 1749 for the Chapelle Royale and given again at the Concert Spirituel in 1763. Restored in 2003 by Michel Lefèvre and recorded 2004 by his Ensemble Jubilate de Versailles.
- 46 Motets conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
References [link]
- ^ Tai Wai Li Marc-François Bêche's collection of eleven grands motets by Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard 1996
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Antoine Blanchard
Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the French painter Marcel Masson (15 November 1910 – 1988) painted his immensely popular Parisian street scenes. He was born in a small village near the banks of the Loire.
Education and career
Blanchard received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany. He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Prix de Rome.
Like Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in the late 1950s, and like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many times, in different weather conditions or various seasons. The most recurrent topics were views of the capital city in cloudy or rainy days, showing streets busy with pedestrians in a rush to go home, and bright storefronts reflecting on wet streets.
Antoine Blanchard died in 1988.
