Jean de Cambefort
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Jean de Cambefort (c. 1605 – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music.[2] He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (recits) for the Ballet de la Nuit, performed in 1653.[1][3]
Works
[edit]- Ballet de la Nuit, 1653;
- Récit du temps et des quatre saisons, v Ballet du Temps (LWV 1), 1654;
- Airs de cour, Parigi, 1651;
- II. livre d’airs, Parigi, 1655;
- 17 arias, from 1651 and 1655.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Lionel Sawkins in Burden & Thorp 2009, p. 39; "Ballet // Royal // De la Nuict // Divisé en quatre Parties ou quatre Veilles // Dansé // Par sa Majesté le 23e Fevrier 1653. // Recueilly // Par Philidor Laisnée En 1690" (BnF, département Musique, RES F-501) published online at Gallica on November 11, 2018.
- ^ McGowan 2001.
- ^ Part books of 1655 for II. livre d'airs à quatre parties, de Monsieur de Cambefort. Sur-intendant et maistre ordinaire de la Musique de la Chambre du Roy: haute-contre, basse-contre, and basse-continue, published online at Gallica on September 3, 2015.
Bibliography
[edit]- Burden, Michael; Thorp, Jennifer (2009; revised 2010). Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 9781576471432. Product page for the revised edition at Pendragon.
- McGowan, Margaret M. (2001). "Cambefort, Jean de" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9781561592395 (hardcover). OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
- Prunières, Henry (1912). "Jean de Cambefort, surintendant de la musique du roi, d'après des documents inédits", L'Année musicale, pp. 205–226.
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