Destouches, André-Cardinal

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Destouches, André-Cardinal (b Paris, 1672; d Paris, 1749). Fr. composer. Superintendent, Paris Opéra, 1713, dir. 1728–30. Best-known work is 3-act opera Issé, heroic pastorale prod. Fontainebleau 1697. It was one of his operas, Omphale (1701), that sparked off the ‘Querelle des Bouffons’.

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