Baroque music owes the rediscovery and availability of a whole repertoire to
this sacred monster of the baton. Trained at the Paris Conservatoire and the
Salzburg Mozarteum, Jean-François Paillard (1928-2013) laid the foundations for
the Baroque revival, which had fallen into disuse two centuries earlier, with
the Ensemble instrumental Jean-Marie Leclair, which became the Orchestre de
Chambre in 1959. From 1953 onwards, the orchestra's success continued unabated.
The conductor toured the world with his favorite musicians Maurice André,
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Marie-Claire Alain and P...