Composer born in Paris (1681-1728) and godson of Duke Anne de Noailles, son of André Danican Philidor and half-brother of François Philidor. At the age of 16 he composed a pastorale called L'Amour vainqueur, then followed his masterpiece Diane et Endymion and the opera Danaé. In 1698 he was oboist with the Grande Écurie du Roi at the Royal Chapel. In 1725 he and Michel Delannoy founded the Concert Spirituel, a series of 24 yearly public concerts of mainly sacred music, until 1790. In 1727 he founded the Concert Français, a kind of secular equivalent of the Concert Spirituel.
