Pierre de La Garde

Pierre de La Garde (10 February 1717, Crecy-la-Chapelle – 1792) was a French composer and baritone. He was music master to the daughters of Louis XV. His surviving compositions are mainly lightweight, composed for himself to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. His opera-ballet Aegle (1748), of which a copy survives in the Musee de l'Amerique francaise, has been revived in Canada, and his comic cantata La Sonate, commencing "N’admires vous pas ce tableau...," was recorded by Dominique Visse.