 Herreweghe’s energetic, authentic and rhetorical approach to Baroque music was soon drawing praise and in 1977 he founded another ensemble in Paris, La Chapelle Royale, to perform the music of the French Golden Age.From 1982 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Académies Musicales de Saintes.During this period, Herreweghe started several other groups and ensembles with whom he made historically appropriate and well-thought-out interpretations of repertoire stretching from the Renaissance to contemporary music.