Louis Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
- Deuxième Suite des Livre de pièces de clavecin (1735)
Performers: Anne Robеrt (clavecin)
Further info: Louis Claude Daquin (1694-1772) - Nouveau Livre de Noëls
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French organist and composer. He was the son of Claude Daquin and Anne
Treisant. After taking some harpsichord lessons from his godmother
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and composition lessons from Nicolas
Bernier, he was capable of playing before Louis XIV at the age of six
and of conducting his own 'Beatus vir' in the Sainte-Chapelle at the age
of eight. In 1706 he was appointed organist at the convent of Petit St
Antoine. On 12 July 1722 he married Denise-Thérèse Quirot; they had only
one child, Pierre-Louis D'Aquin de Châteaulion (c.1722-1797), whose
'Lettres sur les hommes celebres, dans les sciences, la littérature et
les beaux arts: Sous Le Regne de Louis XV' trace the brilliant career of
a father greatly admired by Parisian society. In that time Louis-Claude
Daquin was ordinaire de la musique to Louis-Armand II de Bourbon, the
Prince de Conti, and he probably remained in that position until 1727.
He gained the post of organist at St Paul on 28 April 1727, in
competition with Jean-Philippe Rameau, and in 1732 succeeded his former
teacher Louis Marchand as organist of the Cordeliers. In 1739 he was
appointed to succeed Jean-François Dandrieu as organist of the Chapelle
Royale. On the death of Antoine Calvière in 1755 he also obtained one of
the four positions of organist at Notre Dame. Besides holding these
glittering appointments as organist, Daquin several times played the
organ in the Palais des Tuileries (the home of the Concert Spirituel),
performing there in 1749 and between 1751 and 1754. In 1770 he resigned
from his post at the Chapelle Royale in favour of Armand-Louis Couperin.
As a composer, his most praised work was the 'Livre de pièces de
clavecin' (1735), but he also left, among others, a collection of 'Noels
pour Torgue ou le clavecin' and the cantata 'La Rose' (1762).
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