Royer, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace
(*1705)> COMPOSER
Royer, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace (1705; ?), composer, was able to study music at an early age despite the poverty in which he was raised, and he made a reputation for himself with his cantatas after his arrival in Paris in 1725. He continued his career by contributing four operas to the Royal Academy of Music: Pyrrhus in 1730, Zaïde in 1739, Le Pouvoir de l’amour in 1743, and Almasis in 1750. He directed the orchestra at the Palais-Royal after 1740 and presided over the staging of his last two…