Esprit Antoine Blanchard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French baroque composer
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Place of Birth: Pernes-les-Fontaines, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Esprit Antoine Blanchard
- Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (29 February 1696 – 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.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.
- He died, aged 74, at Versailles.
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