 He remained in control until his death in 1829, despite an interruption of about ten years, due to the French Revolution.In 1783 he wrote his "Traité du chant".A follower of Jean-Philippe Rameau and Christoph Willibald Gluck, from 1783 to 1787, he presented some of his motets, in the chapel of Louis XVI at Versailles, and at the Notre Dame of Paris cathedral.