Jacques Hardel

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Jacques Hardel also Hardelle , Ardel or Ardelle (* around 1643 in Paris ; † in March 1678 ibid) was a French harpsichordist and composer .

Life

Jacques Hardel came from a family of instrument makers who worked for his grandfather Gilles Hardel in Paris, he is the son of the lute maker maître facteur de luth Guillaume Hardel and Margueritte Hurel, who also came from a family of instrument makers. According to the scholar and clergyman Jean Gallois , Jacques Hardel was considered the best student of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières . In 1673 and 1674, Hardel was the harpsichord teacher of the daughter Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , the brother of King Louis XIV, and then served as secretary to the Duchess of Orléans Liselotte of the Palatinate , Philippe's second wife.

Hardel played his works in weekly concerts before the king, together with a lutenist named Porion.

Jacques Hardel was never married and lived for several years in close friendship with a student, a certain Mr. Gautier, to whom he bequeathed his works. Hardel died at the age of 35 and bequeathed his sister a large two-manual harpsichord, a spinet, numerous string instruments from the viol family , several lutes and several dance master violins (pochettes).

With Louis Couperin , Jean-Henri d'Anglebert and Nicolas Lebègue, he is one of the direct successors of Chambonnières. Hardel is even said to have copied a large part of Chambonnières' pieces directly "under his fingers", that is, by ear, while Chambonnières was playing them; He is said to have been the only owner of these pieces.

Since Hardel had no works printed, the few works known to us have survived exclusively as manuscripts or copies, seven of them in the important manuscript Bauyn , in the Bibliothèque nationale de France: a suite in D minor, consisting of an allemande , three courants , and one Sarabande and a jig . And his A minor Gavotte , for which Louis Couperin composed a double and which became one of the most popular pieces in the harpsichord repertoire - there are also versions for other instruments such as the lute and violin, as well as a drinking song and a love song.

Web links

source

  • Bruce Gustafson, "Hardel", in The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 8, Sp. 688–689, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 .
  • Bruce Gustafson, "Introduction" to: Hardel - The Collected Works ( The Art of the Keyboard 1 ), New York: The Broude Trust, 1991.
  • David Fuller and Bruce Gustafson, "Hardel" on Grove Music Online (limited preview).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Gustaffson, "Introduction" to: Hardel - The Collected Works ( The Art of the Keyboard 1 ), New York: The Broude Trust, 1991, p. Ix (+ footnote 5). The lutenist probably played a continuo accompaniment.
  2. ↑ Bruce Gustafson, "Introduction" to: Hardel - The Collected Works ( The Art of the Keyboard 1 ), New York: The Broude Trust, 1991, p. Xi.
  3. ↑ "... dont la plus part, sur tout les dernières, ont esté copiées sous les doigt de Chambonniere, c'est à dire lors qu'il les jouoit; de sorte que Hardelles en étoit le seul possesseur." (Le Gallois, 73-74; Fuller, 23). Quoted here from: Bruce Gustafson, "Introduction" to: Hardel - The Collected Works ( The Art of the Keyboard 1 ), New York: The Broude Trust, 1991, p. Ix.
  4. ↑ Not only the same key suggests that it is a suite, but also similar suites with 3 courants by Chambonnières ( Pièces de clavecin I & II from 1670) and d'Anglebert ( Pièces de clavecin from 1689).
  5. ↑ Bruce Gustafson, "Introduction" to: Hardel - The Collected Works ( The Art of the Keyboard 1 ), New York: The Broude Trust, 1991, p. Xii.
personal data
SURNAME Hardel, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardelle, Mr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 1678
Place of death Paris