Charles-Hubert Gervais (19 February 1671 – 14 January 1744) was a French composer of theBaroque era. The son of a valet toKing Louis XIV's brother,Monsieur, Gervais was born at thePalais Royal inParis and probably educated by Monsieur's musical intendants, Jean Granouillet de Sablières and Charles Lalouette. He worked as a musician for theDuc de Chartres, the future regent of France. In 1701, he married Françoise du Vivier (she died in 1723). In 1721 he was namedsous-maître de musique at theChapelle royale along withAndré Campra,Nicolas Bernier andMichel Richard Delalande (who had previously held the post alone). Gervais composed sacred music, 42 grand motets, 7 petits motets, cantatas, and operas, including twotragédies en musique.

• Idille sur le retour du duc de Chartres (1692)
• Méduse (tragédie en musique, 1697)
• Divertissement de Fontainebleau (1698, attributed to Gervais)
• Hypermnestre (tragédie en musique, 1716)
• Les amours de Protée (opéra-ballet, 1720)
• Divertissement de Villers-Cotterêts (1722)

• Grand motet - Te Deum, Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, Orchestre Des Jeunesses Musicales De France, conducted by Louis Martini. Vinyl LP 1958
• Grand motet - Exaudiat te Dominus, Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, Orchestre de l'association des Concerts Pasdeloup, conducted by Louis Martini. Vinyl LP 1958
• Hypermnestre, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, Katherine Watson, Mathias Vidal, Thomas Dolié, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Juliette Mars, Manuel Munez Camelino, conducted by György Vashegyi. 2 CD Glossa 2019. 5 Diapasons
• Grands motets - Exaudi Deus, O filii et filiae, Judica me Deus, Uquequo Domine, Te Deum, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, conducted by György Vashegyi. CD Glossa 2022. 5 Diapasons
• Grands motets - Jubilate Deo, Super flumina Babylonis, Miserere, Choeur du Concert Spirituel, Les Ombres, conducted by Sylvain Sartre. CD CVS 2022. 5 Diapasons

• Charles-Hubert Gervais,Super flumina Babilonis. Edited byJean-Paul C. Montagnier. “Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era” no. 84. Madison, WI: A.R. Editions, Inc., 1998.
• Charles-Hubert Gervais,Miserere. Ed.Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 2004
• Jean-Paul C. Montagnier,"Charles-Hubert Gervais’sPsiché burlesque and the Birth of the Comic Cantate française,"The Journal of Musicology 17 (1999): 520-545.
• Jean-Paul C. Montagnier,Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671-1744), un musicien au service du Régent et de Louis XV. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001.
• Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, “Les deux versions du cinquième acte d’Hypermnestre de Charles-Hubert Gervais,”Revue de musicologie, 82 (1996), pp. 331-343.
• Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, “Claude Boyer librettiste: remarques surMéduse,”Revue d’histoire du théâtre 191 (1996), pp. 303–320.

• Free scores by Charles-Hubert Gervais at theInternational Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

• List of French composers

• 1671 births
• 1744 deaths
• French Baroque composers
• French opera composers
• French male opera composers
• 18th-century French classical composers
• 18th-century French male composers
• 17th-century French male musicians
• People from the Province of Île-de-France

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