Francoeur, François

Francoeur, François (28 September 1698, Paris; 6 August 1787, Paris), composer, learned to play the violin as a youth and earned a chair in the Palais-Royal orchestra in 1710. He met his lifetime friend, François Rebel, at the Royal Academy of Music about this time, when he was admitted to the Music of the King’s Chamber. After 20 years of service, he became one of the famous “twenty-four violins” and then received the title of Composer of the Chamber from Louis XV in 1733. Rebel and Francoeur…