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Nicolas Racot de Grandval

Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676 – 16 November 1753) was a French composer, harpsichordist and playwright. He was born and died in Paris and was also named „Le Père Grandval“. Although a respectable

Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676 – 16 November 1753) was a French composer, harpsichordist and playwright. He was born and died in Paris and was also named „Le Père Grandval“. Although a respectable musician, at one time organist at St Eustache, his interests ran more to comedy, both in written comic dramas, such as the “Broken bed pot” and in musical comedy such as frivolous parodies on Clérambault’s cantatas. His sister Marie-Hortense married the actor Charles Botot Dangeville. Works ;Theatre *1693: La Baguette, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 4 April *1697: Le Bourget, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 23 May *1701: Les Trois Gascons, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 4 June *1702: Le Bal d’Auteuil, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 22 August *1704: Le Port de mer, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 27 May *1707: Le Diable boiteux, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 8 October *1709: La Foire Saint-Laurent, comedy in 1 act and in verse, Théâtre-Français, 20 September *1713: L’Usurier gentilhomme, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 11 September *1717: Le Prix de l’arquebuse, comedy in

Era
Baroque
Lived
1676–1753
From
France
Born in
Paris · died Paris
Known as
composer, playwright, writer, conductor, stage actor, harpsichordist

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.