Plantade, Charles-Henri
(1764–1839)> COMPOSER
Plantade, Charles-Henri (19 October 1764, Pontoise; 18 December 1839, Paris), composer, was admitted to the royal music school for pages at age 8 and studied cello there before going to Paris to study voice and composition with Langlé, piano with Hullmandel, and harp with Petrini. He published songs for the harp at this time, and in 1791 one of his tunes became so popular that it sold an unheard of 20,000 copies. This little song, “Te bien aimer, ô ma chère Zélie,” also changed the course of…