Biography
Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676 - 16 November 1753) was a French composer, harpsichordist and playwright. He was born and died in Paris and was also named „Le Père Grandval“.
Although a respectable musician, at one time organist at St Eustache, his interests ran more to comedy, both in written comic dramas, such as the "Broken bed pot"[1] and in musical comedy such as frivolous parodies on Clérambault's cantatas.[2] His sister Marie-Hortense married the actor Charles Botot Dangeville.
