Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (born Élisabeth Jacquet ; baptized March 17, 1665 in Paris , † June 27, 1729 in Paris) was a French composer and harpsichordist .
Life and work
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, the daughter of the organist Claude Jacquet, performed as a concert harpsichordist as a child. At the age of five she played before King Louis XIV and was taken into care by his mistress, Madame de Montespan. The king supported her financially and later had her compositional works performed. Your successes can be followed at the Mercure Galant. The Weimar music writer and composer Johann Gottfried Walther published his Musicalisches Lexicon in 1732 , in which he quotes from it the “miracle of our century”: “Jaquier (sic) a small and single French woman around 1678, according to the clavessin , is in the Mercure Galant ac in Decembre -month, p. 80. la merveille de nostre Siecle called. "
In 1684 she married the organist Marin de la Guerre . The French Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre belongs together with the Italians Francesca Caccini , Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonarda to the “established” composers of the Baroque today. She was the first woman composer in France to compose an opera that was performed at the Opéra Paris. It is Céphale et Procris , a tragédie-lyrique with prologue and five acts, the libretto of which was by Joseph-François Duché de Vancy.
Work (selection)
- Sacred (1708 and 1711) and secular (1715) cantatas
- Cantata Le Sommeil d'Ulisse (around 1715)
- Céphale et Procris (Duché de Vancy). Opera (1694 Paris, 1696 Strasbourg)
- Les Jeux à l'honneur de la victoire. Ballet (1685? Around 1691/1692 (?), Lost)
- Divertissement pour le Mariage de Mlle de Nantes avec le Duc de Bourbon Ballet (1685, lost)
- Harpsichord suites (2 books with Pièces de Clavecin , 1687 and 1707)
- Sonatas for violin and harpsichord or continuo (1707)
- Trio Sonatas (1695)
Web links
- Works by and about Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre in the Lexicon of European Female Instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th Centuries , Sophie Drinker Institute , Bremen
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre at the project MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet, University of Music and Theater Hamburg
- Sheet music and audio files by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre in the International Music Score Library Project
literature
- Catherine Cessac : Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV . Actes sud, Arles, 1995
- Anna Beer : Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music . Oneworld, 2016 ISBN 9781780748566
- Eva Weissweiler : female composers from the Middle Ages to the present . Munich: dtv, 1999 ISBN 3-423-30726-9 , pp. 99–117
Supporting documents and comments
- ^ Claudia Schweitzer, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. In: Mugi, Music and Gender on the Internet.
- ↑ James R. Briscoe (ed.): New Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2004, pp. 48-79.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacquet, Élisabeth Claude (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Baroque composer and harpsichordist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1665 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1729 |
| Place of death | Paris |