André Danican Philidor the Elder

[1] In 1694 he and Fossard received a privilège to print music written for the court, but they only published the anthology Airs italiens (Paris, 1690–1710).

A large number of manuscripts that Philidor prepared for the Count of Toulouse were owned by St Michael's College, Tenbury.

[1] Philidor l'aîné was appointed to a position previously held by his uncle, Michel Danican [fr], in the Cromornes et Trompettes Marines in 1659.

He played oboe in the royal musketeers from 1667 to 1677; appears in librettos of Lully's ballets and operas as a player of a variety of wind and percussion instruments from 1670; played drum in the Fifres et Tambours and was a member of the 12 Grands Hautbois du Roi in 1681; was ordinaire de la musique de la chapelle from 1682; and became one of four wind players to join the Petits Violons in 1690.

He may have hoped to be appointed to Lully's post of surintendant of the king's music, but in 1689 the position went to Michel-Richard de Lalande instead.