Esprit Antoine Blanchard

Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (29 February 1696 – 19 April 1770) was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France.

[1] Blanchard was born at Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696.

His father was a physician.

He was a choirboy at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence.

He died, aged 74, at Versailles.