Jan Chalon (1738-1795) - Sonata (II) pour le Clavessin (1759)
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Composer: Jan Chalon (1738-1795)
Work: Sonata (II) pour le Clavessin (1759)
Performers: Tilmаn Skοwrοnеck (clavecin)
Painting: Hendrik Keun (1738-1787) - Gezicht op de Houtmarkt te Amsterdam
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Jan (Jean, John) Chalon
(Amsterdam, 4 June 1735 - London, 1795)
Dutch musician, printmaker and collector. Son and grandson of professional musicians (his father Hendrik Chalon was also a collector), he was also intimately bound into a network of artists, dealers and connoisseurs. Despite nothing is known about his formation, he probably received early lessons from his father. One sister, Christina Chalon, was an artist, and another married the collector Jan Lucas van der Dussen. The painter Cornelis Troost was a cousin. He spent many years, and died, in London. However, a rather astonishing fact is that Chalon, according to Joseph Farington, married the daughter of the collector John Barnard, who disowned her as a result. She died in Paris of a broken heart in 1775, aged 24, leaving two children: Henry Barnard Chalon and a daughter, Carolina Susanna, who married in 1795 the dealer Christian Josi. Chalon’s marriage to Miss Barnard and H. B. Chalon's date of birth suggest that the Dutchman was in London before Lugt surmises (which was after a stint in Paris in 1773). For Jan Chalon, Lugt mentions a sale in Amsterdam, 1797, and there was sale in London, which comprised part of Robert Grave's massive collections but which also contained a large collection of Rembrandts 'of the first and choicest Impressions, and were principally collected by the late Mr. Chalon, well known for his refined Taste and Judgement in the works of this celebrated Artist.' From 1788 to 1793 he made etchings in the manner of Rembrandt; he later destroyed many, but a hundred published posthumously (1802) in London by his son-in-law Christian Josi. As a composer, he published a collection of 'VI Sonates pour le Clavessin', Op.1 (1759), a set of 'Six Sonatines for the Harpsichord', Op.3 and a 'Simfonie périodique à 8 instruments'.
Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG22437 #ClassicalMusic