Chapelle royale

In 1511 Louis XII decided the responsibilities of the treasurer of the Sainte-Chapelle and the master of the chapelle royale.^[1] The death, and sumptuous 40-day funeral of Louis' wife, Anne of Brittany in 1514 marks the origin of a unified chapelle royale combining the chapels of both Louis and Anne. Though at Anne's funeral the two chapels sang separately for the last time. Louis' Chapelle du Roi led by Antoine de Févin, included Johannes Prioris, Costanzo Festa, and Antoine de Longueval but not Jean Braconnier (died 1512). Anne's Chapelle de la Reine led by Antoine Divitis included Jean Mouton, Jean Richafort, Claudin de Sermisy, and Pierre Moulu.

François I inherited all 29 singers of the combined chapels of Louis and Anne. Claudin de Sermisy, who was earlier noted as clerc musicien of the Sainte-Chapelle in 1508, and in 1515 as a member of the Chapelle Royale under Louis II, from 1532 became sous-maître of the chapelle of François I.

Henri IV was the king whom legend tells said "Paris is worth a Mass."

Jean Veillot, sous-maître from 1643 to 1662
Thomas Gobert, sous-maître from 1654^[4] to 1668.
Henry Du Mont (1610–1684), sous-maître from 1663 to 1683; compositeur from 1672.
Pierre Robert (composer) (c. 1615 – 1699), sous-maître from 1663 to 1683; compositeur from 1672.
Nicolas Le Prince.^[5]

On the 1683 retirement of Henry Du Mont and Pierre Robert the position of maître of the chapelle was divided into four positions:

Pascal Collasse (1649–1709), sous-maître from 1683 to 1704, assistant to Lully until 1683, when he won one of the four seasonal assignments into which the Chapelle Royale directorship had been divided. His later years were devoted to alchemy.
Michel Richard Delalande (1657–1726), sous-maître from 1683 to 1723.
Nicolas Goupillet (1650–1713), sous-maître from 1683 - but in 1693 dismissed for plagiarism of Henri Desmarest.
Guillaume Minoret, sous-maître from 1683 to 1714

Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671–1744), In 1721 named one of four sous-maîtres
André Campra (1660–1744), sous-maître from 1721
Nicolas Bernier (1664–1734), sous-maître from 1721
Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728) sous-maître from 1723
Henry Madin (1698–1748), sous-maître from 1736
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772), maître de musique de la chapelle du roi. Acquired the reversion of André Campra's post in 1740, he acceded to the position itself on 4 March 1744 on the death of Charles-Hubert Gervais. But since he was not permitted to publish the motets he composed for the chapel, he resigned from the post in 1758.^[6]

1761 Four posts reduced to two.

Daniel François Esprit Auber succeeded Cherubini and then was maître de chapelle of Napoléon III from 1852.^[8]

Maîtres and sous-maîtres of the Chapelle Royale