Claude Balbastre has been played on NTS in shows including Open Hand Real Flames , featured first on 22 December 2021. Songs played include Ah, Ma Voisine Es-tu Fachée and A La Venue De Noel .

Claude Balbastre (December 8, 1724 – May 9, 1799) was a French composer, organist and harpsichordist.

Claude Balbastre was born in Dijon in 1724. He received his first music lessons from his father, a church organist, then became a pupil of Claude Rameau, the younger brother of Jean-Philippe Rameau, the most famous French musician at the time and also a native of Dijon.

Balbastre settled in Paris in 1750 and studied…