Jean-Baptiste Nôtre (4 September 1732 – 20 February 1807) was a French composer and organist. Born in Toul, Jean-Baptiste Nôtre's father, Jacob Notter, from Mels near Sargans in Switzerland, married in Toul in 1721 and settled there, after serving as a soldier in the Esly regiment; he became the Swiss of the cathedral, under the French name Jacques Nôtre.
Jean-Baptiste Nôtre, who was initially a choirboy in the cathedral, probably received his first organ lessons from the organists Noirel et Martelet. In 1754, the canons awarded him a scholarship to train for six months in Paris by Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695–1755), one of the organists of the Chapelle Royale and titular at Notre-Dame de Paris. When he returned, they named him organist of the Toul Cathedral, which had a magnificent instrument built by Nicolas Dupont [fr] between 1751 and 1755.
He was asked to appraise the organs of the Cistercian abbey Notre-Dame de Beaupré. (1775), the abbatiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Neuwiller-lès-Saverne [fr] (1778), the Saint-Vincent de Metz abbey [fr] (1779), as well as those of the Nancy Cathedral (1787, 1789).
In 1793, he was commissioned to estimate the organs of all the churches in Toul, which became national property. Even though the French Revolution suspended his activities for a while, he remained organist of the cathedral until his death.
In 1757, he married Nancy Françoise Mangin, daughter of an innkeeper, who gave him five children. Their daughter Marguerite Nôtre (1759–1837) was an organist in the Lunéville parish of Saint-Jacques. Text source : Wikipedia (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
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