Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de (24 December 1715, Narbonne; 8 October 1773, Belleville), composer, began his musical studies on the violin, and his talent with this instrument won him the post of first violinist at Lille before his 20th birthday. He wrote three motets at this time, and he was asked to join the Music of the Royal Chamber after these three pieces were heard in Paris. In 1774 he went on to succeed Gervais as superintendent of the chapel at Versailles (see seventeenth-century…