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Sandrine Piau
Sandrine Piau
French opera soprano
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Joe͏̈l Suhubiette
Joe͏̈l Suhubiette
French conductor and choir director
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Bertrand Chamayou
Bertrand Chamayou
French pianist
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François-Bernard Mâche
François-Bernard Mâche
French composer
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Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset
French musician
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Accentus (choir)
Accentus (choir)
choir
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Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen
American musician
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Angèle Dubeau
Angèle Dubeau
Canadian violinist
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor, writer and pianist
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Nathalie Stutzmann
Nathalie Stutzmann
French opera singer
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Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet
Swiss conductor (1883–1969)
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Nicolas Vérin
Nicolas Vérin
French composer
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Armand Angster
Armand Angster
french clarinetist
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Orchestre National de France
Orchestre National de France
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Michel Portal
Michel Portal
French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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Marcel Landowski
Marcel Landowski
French composer
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Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat
French orchestra leader
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Jean-Claude Éloy
Jean-Claude Éloy
French composer
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Jérémie Rhorer
Jérémie Rhorer
musician and conductor
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Nicolas Dautricourt
Nicolas Dautricourt
French violinist
Jean-François Paillard
French conductor

Jean-François Paillard

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French conductor
Awards Received
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Music

Jean-François Paillard (12 April 1928 – 15 April 2013) was a French conductor.

He was born in Vitry-le-François and received his musical training at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won first prize in music history, and the Salzburg Mozarteum.

He also earned a degree in mathematics at the Sorbonne.

In 1953, he founded the Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble, which later became the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra in 1959. The ensemble has made recordings of much of the Baroque repertoire for Erato Records and has toured throughout Europe and the United States. It has also recorded with many leading French instrumentalists, including Maurice André, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pierre Pierlot, Lily Laskine, Jacques Lancelot, Michel Arrignon.

A 1968 recording by the orchestra of the "Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo" by Johann Pachelbel, familiarly known as Pachelbel's Canon, nearly single-handedly brought the piece from obscurity to great renown. The recording was done in a more Romantic style, at a significantly slower tempo than it had been played at before, and contained obligato parts, written by Paillard, that are now closely associated with the piece. It was released on an Erato Records album, and was also included on a widely distributed album by mail-order label Musical Heritage Society album in 1968. The recording began to get significant attention in the United States, particularly in San Francisco, during the early 1970s. By the late 1970s various renditions of it were topping classical music charts in the U.S., including Paillard's own. The Paillard Chamber Orchestra's recording was also prominently featured in the soundtrack of the 1980 film Ordinary People.

Paillard released 307 records.

He also appeared frequently as a guest conductor with other orchestras and was active as an author. He edited the series Archives de la Musique Instrumentale and published La musique française classique in 1960.

He died in April 2013, three days after his 85th birthday.