Jean Cathala

A mention on 17 February 1646, followed by a reference on 28 May 1650, indicates that he was a clerk and a singer (middle register voice) in the Sainte Chapelle of the Palace and that he also played the cornett.

[1] As he appears also in the registers of Notre-Dame at such a time (employed at 16 sous per day according to an act of 2 July 1649, and in 1652).

In Auxerre, Cathala succeeded Annibal Gantez as maître de chapelle of the Cathedral.

He was there in August 1663, when he gave the chapter of the Troyes Cathedral a copy of his mass Inclina cor meum in recognition of the donation to him made by the chapter for playing the cornett at the feast of St. Peter at the Troyes Cathedral.

:[3] Cathala seems to have returned to Paris on an unknown date: probably he was the "Cathalas", an ordinary singer of the Paris church, who attended the funeral of Louis Gingart's son, ordinary musician of the king and queen, on 27 February 1673, and who resided in the Rue des Marmousets-en-la-Cité [fr] (La Madeleine parish).