André Campra was a French choreographer, born in 1660 in Aix-en-Provence, who died in 1744.
Biography
André Campra (French: [kɑ̃pʁa]; baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several tragédies en musique and opéra-ballets that were extremely well received. He also wrote three books of cantatas as well as religious music, including a requiem.
Contemporaries
Raoul Auger Feuillet
French choreographer
Jean-Baptiste Lully fils
French Baroque composer
Jean-Louis Lully
French Baroque composer (1667-1688)
Louis-Guillaume Pécour
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Pascal Collasse
French composer (1649-1709)
Claude Balon
French dancer
Antoine Houdar de La Motte
French author (1672–1731)
Louis Fuzelier
French playwright, librettist, lyricist and singer
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