Jean-François Lalouette

Jean -François Lalouette (* 1651 in Paris; † August 31, 1728 ) was a French composer and church musician of the Baroque.

Life

Jean -François Laloutte was a choirboy at Saint- Eustache, later he studied with Jean Baptiste Lully whose secretary he was at times. Violin he studied at Guy Leclerc, a violinist in the Grande Bande. Lully sat Lalouette as a violinist in his opera projects of the Académie royale de Musique. As secretary of Lully, is said to have confided in the composition of the transitional passages in his operas. After disputes with Lully about an opera that was poorly accepted by the King and Lalloutte repeatedly boasted that some of the most beautiful arias in operas of Lully came from him, he was in 1687 permanently removed from the farm.

Lalouette then devoted his work mainly of church music. He was from 1693 director of music at the Cathedral of Rouen, from 1695 to 1697 at Notre Dame de Versailles from 1697 to 1698 in Saint -Germain l'Auxerrois. In 1700, he was the successor of André Campra choirmaster of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral. He held until his resignation in 1726 This body, he received an annual pension of 400 livres. Also in 1726 his Miserere was performed at the Concert Spirituel.

Work

Laloutte composed a number of motets for large chorus and orchestra, which have not survived. Reported are two collections of small motets from 1726 and 1730 and two fairs, one of which appeared in print in 1744. An opera, which was performed in 1678, as well as some instrumental music are missing.