Gervais, Charles-Hubert

Gervais, Charles-Hubert (19 February 1671, Paris; 15 January 1744, Paris) was a musician of average ability whose friends at Court obtained for him the position of music master of the chamber in the household of the duke d’Orléans during the regency. He became choir master for Louis XV after the latter’s succession to the throne. His Méduse failed in 1697, and he did not have another work produced at the Palais-Royal until 1716, when his Hypermnestre (for Hypermnestre, see eighteenth-century…