Francois Colin de Blamont

Francois Colin de Blamont (22 November 1690 – 14 February 1760) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

Born at Versailles as Francois Colin, he served as a royal musician and was eventually ennobled in 1750, his surname becoming Colin de Blamont. He was the protege of Michel Richard Delalande and succeeded the latter as Master of the Chapelle Royale on his death in 1726. Blamont wrote motets and cantatas as well as stage works, including the opera Les fetes grecques et romaines, intended to be the first in a new genre, the ballet heroique, which would challenge the supremacy of the opera-ballet.