Philidor, François-André Danican
(1726–1795)> COMPOSER
Philidor, François-André Danican (7 September 1726, Dreux; 31 August 1795, London), composer, finished his musical education under Campra at Versailles and went to Paris to support himself by giving lessons and copying music (see seventeenth-century volume for Campra). He returned each year to Court to present a motet, and he began to emerge as one of the most skilled chess players in France. By 1745 he was ready to travel to Holland, Germany, and England to meet the most formidable players in…