François Chauvon

François Chauvon (* before 1700 ; † 1740 ) was a French composer of the Baroque.

Life

François Chauvon was a student of François Couperin , to whom he dedicated his sonata collection "Tibiades" in 1717. As a musician at court, Chauvon held the position of "Ordinaire du roi" and was "Huissier de la chambre de son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Régent" (bailiff). In his sonatas he realized the rapprochement between the French and the Italian styles, the so-called mixed taste or “goûts réunis”. In 1736 the pastoral Les agréments champêtres was created as a stage work , which was performed in 1736 in the castle of Saint-Cloud in the presence of the king.

Works

• 1712: Les mille et un airs , 3 collections of four-part vocal pieces, without accompaniment (1712, 1713, 1715)
• 1713: Pièces pour la flûte
• 1717: Cantata Le philosophe amoreux
• 1717: Cantata Le tendre solitaire
• 1717: Tibiades - Nouveau genre de pièces pou la flûte, et le hautbois, avec quelques sonates pour le violon (New kind of pieces for flute and oboe, with some sonatas for violin)
• 1723: Concert for voice and instruments Les charmes de l'harmonie
• 1736: Pastorale Les agréments champêtres

literature

• François-Joseph Fétis: Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique . 1837
• Timothy Schultz: Performing French Classical Music. A Case Study Based on the Première Suitte of François Chauvon (fl 1712-1736) . Pendragon Press, Hillsdale 2000.