Jean-Baptiste Stuck

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(b 1680; d Paris, 8 Dec 1755). Italian composer and cellist of German descent. He called himself ‘Florentin’, although Lesure gives Livorno as his birthplace. In the libretto of Rodrigo in Algeri (Naples, 1702), a reworking of Albinoni’s L’inganno innocente, he was called ‘virtuoso della Contessa di Lemos’. His appearance in Paris was marked by the publication of an aria in Ballard’s Recueil d’airs sérieux of 1705. He lived well at the hôtel of his patron, the Prince of Carignan, until the prince's death in 1740. The title-pages of his four books of cantatas (1706–14) reveal that he was also favoured by the italophile Duke of Orléans and made an ‘Ordinaire de la musique’. La prise de Lérida, from book 2, celebrates a military victory that may also have been the inspiration for his Te Deum, commissioned by the duchess and performed at the Palais Royal on 27 November 1707. In 1708 Stuck wrote an italian aria for a revival of Collasse’s Thétis et Pélée. However, his first two French operas, Méléagre and Manto la fée, performed in 1709 and 1711, were not well received. According to Loewenberg, Stuck left France to spend some time in the service of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria (c1714). His opera Il cid was performed at Livorno at Carnival 1715, and in the same year he married Bonne-Françoise Berain, daughter of Louis XIV’s court painter. He was awarded a pension of 500 livres as ordinaire de la musique du Roy on 18 December 1718. His third French opera, Polydore, was presented

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Polydore

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French Baroque Cantatas (The Perfection of Music, Masterpieces of the French Baroque, Vol. I)

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Stuck: Tirannique empire...

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Stuck: Polydore

French Cantatas

Tirannique empire …

The Perfection of Music: Masterpieces of the French Baroque

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Música De La Guerra De Sucessió Espanyola

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Tirannique empire...

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Música de la Guerra de Successió Espanyola

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Italian Secular Cantatas

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Versailles: Music From The Palace

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