André Richer (1712–1757) began his musical training under Delalande and Bernier when he was a page in the Musique du roi, the King's personal troupe of musicians.

On the death of his father Andre in 1757, Richer succeeded him as maître de musique to the dukes of Chartres and Bourbon.

In 1776 he was the dedicatee of Marc-Antoine Désaugiers's L'Art du chant figuré (his translation of Mancini's treatise on singing).

Richer's career at the court ended with the arrest of Louis XVI on 13 August 1792 and the official abolition of the monarchy a month later.

Alexandre Choron described him in 1811 as both a charming man and good musician and living in Paris surrounded by his family and friends.

[7][2][5] During his time at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s Richer had been a member of the Masonic organization Grand Orient de France and was an associate of the Concert de la Loge Olympique, a concert society and orchestra which had been founded by a group of Parisian Masons.