Campra, André (December 1660, Aix-en-Provence; 14 June 1744, Versailles), composer, became a choirboy at Saint Sauveur church in his native city in 1674. He completed his formal musical studies in Aix-en-Provence and became choir master at Sainte-Trophîme in Arles on 22 August 1681. He then moved on to Saint Etienne in Toulouse on 11 June 1683. Finally, in 1694, he came to Paris to assume the duties of music master at Notre-Dame, where he introduced violins into sacred music on solemn occasions…