CHAUMONT, Lambert (c.1630-1712) - Suite du 4e ton (1695)

Lambert Chaumont (c.1630-1712) - Suite du 4e ton des 'Pièces d'orgue sur les 8 tons avec leurs variété, leurs agrémens, leurs mouvemens et le mélange de jeux propres à chaque espèce de verset' (1695)

Performers: Pascal Lefrançois (organ)

Engraving: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Vuë de la Maison de ville, de Liege, du Marché, et des fontaines

Further info: Pièces d'orgue sur les 8 tons

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Lambert Chaumont [Lambert de Saint Théodore]

(Liège?, c.1630 - Huy, 23 April 1712)

Flemish composer. The earliest mention of his name dates from January 1649, when he is listed as a lay brother at the Carmelite monastery at Liège. An entry for 8 May 1659 in the monastery accounts records that he was one of nine brothers from there who had completed their novitiates at the monastery at Reims. In any religious context he henceforth called himself ‘Frère Lambert de St Théodore’. This important document leads one to suppose that he was born about 1630 and proves that he was a native of the diocese of Liège. He is not heard of again until 10 February 1674, when he was nominated rector of the small parish of St Martin at Huy. On 7 September 1688 he became priest of the neighbouring parish of St Germain and at the same time pater of the Carmelites at Huy. He held both positions until his death. As a composer, his only extant work is the collection 'Pièces d'orgue sur les 8 tons avec leurs variété, leurs agrémens, leurs mouvemens et le mélange de jeux propres à chaque espèce de verset' (1695). These pieces are in the finest traditions of the French organists of the 17th century, grouping his pieces in eight suites of 12 to 15 numbers following the order of the eight church tones.