Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

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Royer composing his opera Zaïde, by Jean-Marc Nattier. Private collection.

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (ca. 1705 – 11 January 1755) was a French composer and harpsichordist.

Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV. Together with the violinist Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Royer directed the Concert Spirituel, starting in 1748. Royer was at the Paris Opéra during the 1730s and the 1750s, writing six operas himself, of which the best known is the ballet-héroïque Zaïde, reine de Grenade. In 1753 he acquired the prestigious position of music director of the chambre du roi (the king's chamber), and in the same year was named director of the Royal Opera orchestra. He died in Paris.

Works

Operas

Other works

• 1746: Premiere livre de pièces pour clavecin (1746)

1. La majestuese: courante
2. La Zäide: rondeau (Tendrement)
3. Les matelots: (modérément)
   

   

   Frontpage to Ode à la fortune, 1747
4. Premier et deuxième tambourins
5. L'incertaine: (marque)
6. L'aimable: (gracieux)
7. La bagatelle
8. Suite de la bagatelle
9. La remouleuse: rondeau (modérément)
10. Les tendre Sentiments: rondeau
11. Le vertigo: rondeau (modérément)
12. Allemande
13. La sensible: rondeau
14. La marche des Scythes: fièrement
15. La chasse de Zäide (1739)

• 1746: Ode à la fortune, text by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, (first performance 25 December 1746, Concert spirituel)
• 1751: Venite exultemus, motet (first performance 18 December 1751, Concert spirituel)

External links

• Free scores by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
• Free scores by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer at the International Music Score Library Project
• The Mutopia Project has compositions by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer