Philip de Bourbon
Philip de Bourbon
Philip de Bourbon, Duke of Chartres and Orléans, French regent (1715–23) and composer; b. St. Cloud, Aug. 2, 1674; d. Versailles, Dec. 2, 1723. He was a nephew of Louis XIV. He studied music with Charpentier, who became his intendant of music. With Charpentier, he wrote the opera Philomèle (1694; not extant), with his later intendant, Charles–Hubert Gervais, he wrote Renaud et Armide (1705), and with his captain of the guard, the Marquis de la Fare, he wrote Penthée (Palais Royal, July 16, 1705; rev. 1709).
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