Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-c.1672)
- Suite de Pieces en La mineur
Performers: Olivier Bаumοnt (harpsichord)
Further info: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-c.1672)
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French composer and harpsichordist. His father was the keyboard player
and composer Jacques Champion, known as La Chapelle (c.1555-1642), who
served in the king's chamber as a 'gentilhomme ordinaire'. By 1632
Chambonnieres was associated with the court, where he became esteemed as
both a harpsichordist and dancer. During the 1630s, his reputation as a
harpsichordist grew rapidly, with Marin Mersenne praising his
exceptional playing. In 1641 he founded a series of private concerts
known as the 'Assemblee des Honnestes Curieux', with which he was active
as director and performer. In 1643 he succeeded his father as a
'gentilhomme ordinaire' in the king's chamber. In 1662 he retired from
his court duties and was succeeded by D'Anglebert. As a composer, he
only wrote works for solo harpsichord and published 'Les Pieces de
clavessin' (two vols., Paris, 1670). Chambonnieres was an influential
teacher, numbering among his pupils the Couperin brothers (Louis and
Charles), Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, Jacques Hardel, Nicolas Lebègue, and
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers. Chambonnieres was the founder of the French
Classical school of harpsichord playing, and was one of the first to
adapt the lute idiom to the composing of harpsichord music.
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