Jean Joseph Mouret (1682-1738) - Concert de chambre à deux et trois parties pour les violons,
flutes et hautbois ... Second livre (1738)
Performers: Orchestre de Chambre Gérard Cartigny
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French composer. Son of Jean-Bertrand Mouret and Madeleine Menotte, he
is believed to have received his musical training at the Notre Dame des
Doms choir school in Avignon. After settling in Paris (1707), he became
'maitre de musique' to the Marshal of Noailles; within a year or so, he
was made 'surintendant de la musique' at the Sceaux court. He was
director of the Paris Opera orchestra (1714-18), and became
composer-director at the New Italian Theater (1717), remaining there for
two decades. He was also made an 'ordinaire du Roy' as a singer in the
king's chamber (1720), and served as artistic director of the Concert
Spirituel (1728-34), where he brought out many of his cantatas, motets,
and cantatilles. In 1718 he was granted a royal privilege to published
his own music. Stricken with a mental disorder in 1737, he was placed in
the care of the Fathers of Charity in Charenton in 1738. Among his most
successful works were the opera-ballet 'Les Fetes ou Le Triomphe de
Thalie' (Paris, 1714), the comedie lyrique 'Le Manage de Ragonde et de
Colin ou La Veillée de village' (Sceaux, 1714), various divertissements
for the Italian Theater, and the Suites de simphonies (c.1729).
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