Bouvard, François
(1670–1757)> COMPOSER
Bouvard, François (1670, near Paris; after 1757, ?), composer, entered the Opéra as a child, but he was obliged to abandon his rôles to women after he lost his voice at the age of sixteen. He then gave himself over to the study of composition and spent some time in Rome. He returned to Paris at the turn of the century and had his Médus, roi des Mèdes represented at the Palais-Royal in 1702. His next contribution to the Royal Academy of Music was Cassandre, produced in 1706. He wrote Ariane et…