Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (ca. 1705 – 11 January 1755) was a French

France

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 composer

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 and harpsichord

Harpsichord

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ist.

Born in Turin

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, Royer went to Paris

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 in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV. Together with the violinist Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Royer directed the Concert Spirituel

Concert Spirituel

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, starting in 1748. Royer was at the Paris Opéra

Académie Royale de Musique

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 during the 1730s and the 1750s, writing six operas himself, of which the best known is the ballet-héroïque Zaïde, reine de Grenade

Zaïde, reine de Grenade

Zaïde, reine de Grenade is a ballet-héroïque written by the French Baroque composer Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Zaïde, reine de Grenade (Zaïde, Queen of Grenada) is a ballet-héroïque written by the French Baroque composer Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Zaïde, reine de Grenade (Zaïde, Queen of...

. In 1753 he acquired the prestigious position of music director of the chambre du roi (the king's chamber), and in the same year was named director of the Royal Opera orchestra. He died in Paris.

Operas

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
Le fâcheux veuvage (contributions)	opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...	3 acts	Alexis Piron Alexis Piron Alexis Piron was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.He was born at Dijon, where his father, Aimé Piron, was an apothecary. Piron senior wrote verse in the Burgundian language. Alexis began life as clerk and secretary to a banker, and then studied law...	September 1725	Paris, Foire St Laurent
Crédit est mort (contributions)	opéra comique	1 act	Alexis Piron	February 1726	Paris, Foire St Germain
Pyrrhus	tragédie lyrique	prologue and 5 acts	J. Fermelhuis	19 October 1730	Paris, Académie Royale de Musique Académie Royale de Musique The Salle Le Peletier was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire in 1873. The theatre was designed and constructed by the architect François Debret on the site of the former Hôtel de Choiseul...
Zaïde, reine de Grenade Zaïde, reine de Grenade Zaïde, reine de Grenade is a ballet-héroïque written by the French Baroque composer Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Zaïde, reine de Grenade (Zaïde, Queen of Grenada) is a ballet-héroïque written by the French Baroque composer Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Zaïde, reine de Grenade (Zaïde, Queen of...	ballet héroïque	prologue and 3 acts	Abbé de La Marre	5 September 1739	Paris, Opéra
Le pouvoir de l'Amour	ballet héroïque	prologue and 3 acts	C-H Le Febvre de Saint-Marc	23 April 1743	Paris, Académie Royale de Musique
Prométhée et Pandore	tragédie Tragédie Tragédie is a French rap duo made up of Tizy Bone and Silk Shaï from Nantes. They had three singles that reached #1 in France.-Studio album:*2003: Tragédie*2004: À fleur de peau*2010: TBA-Singles:*2003: "Hey Oh"*2004: "Sexy pour Moi"...	5 acts	Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...	composed 1744-54, private rehearsal 5 October 1752	Paris
Almasis	acte de ballet	1 act	François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif	26 February 1748	Versailles
Myrtil et Zélie	pastorale-héroïque	prologue and 1 act		20 June 1750	Versailles

Other works

• 1746
  1746 in music
  - Events :*April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.*Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach...
  
  : Premiere livre de pièces pour clavecin (1746)

1. La majestuese: courante
2. La Zäide: rondeau (Tendrement)
3. Les matelots: (modérément)
4. Premier et deuxième tambourins
5. L'incertaine: (marque)
6. L'aimable: (gracieux)
7. La bagatelle
8. Suite de la bagatelle
9. La remouleuse: rondeau (modérément)
10. Les tendre Sentiments: rondeau
11. Le vertigo: rondeau (modérément)
12. Allemande
13. La sensible: rondeau
14. La marche des Scythes: fièrement
15. La chasse de Zäide (1739)
    • 1746: Ode à la fortune, text by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
      Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
      Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French poet.-Biography:Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude...
      
      , (first performance 25 December 1746, Concert spirituel)
    • 1751
      1751 in music
      -Events:*1751 is the year commonly given as the beginning of the classical era*The "War of the Buffoons" , concerning the relative merits of French and Italian opera, divides Paris....
      
      : Venite exultemus, motet (first performance 18 December 1751, Concert spirituel)

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