Jean de Cambefort
Illustration — First page of a 1690 manuscript copy of the musical score for the Ballet Royal de la Nuict, part of the Philidor Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Jean de Cambefort (c. 1605 – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France.
Jean de Cambefort
Jean de Cambefort, compositeur de la Chambre du roi (ca 1605 - 1661) · Signature de Jean de Cambefort · Public domain
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- 1605 · Paris.
- Died
- 1661 · Paris.
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- France
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- composer
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- classical music · Baroque music
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- French
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Illustration — First page of a 1690 manuscript copy of the musical score for the Ballet Royal de la Nuict, part of the Philidor Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Jean de Cambefort (c. 1605 – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France.
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He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (recits) for the Ballet de la Nuit, performed in 1653.
• 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.
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1661
Jean de Cambefort died in 1661 at Paris.
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- 1.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.
- 2.McGowan 2001.
- 3.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 printed in the source article · 3
- Burden, Michael; Thorp, Jennifer (2009; revised 2010). Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. . 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. (hardcover). (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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