Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-c.1672) - Suite de Pieces

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Composer: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c.1601-c.1672)
Work: Suite de Pieces en La mineur
Performers: Olivier Bаumοnt (harpsichord)

Painting: Jan Steen (1626-1679) - Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten
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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
(Paris, c.1601 - Paris, c.1672)

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.