François Colin de Blamont
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François Colin de Blamont (22 November 1690 - 14 February 1760) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born at Versailles, he served as a royal musician and was eventually ennobled in 1750. He was the protegé of Michel-Richard de Lalande 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 ftes grecques et romaines, intended to be the first in a new genre, the ballet héroïque, which would challenge the supremacy of the opéra-ballet.
