Jean-Guillain Cardon

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Jean-Guillain Cardon (born January 18, 1732 in Mons , † October 18, 1788 in Versailles ) was a Belgian-French violinist and composer .

Life

Jean-Guillain Cardon worked for a short time in Brussels from 1753 and then for some time in Champagne before settling in Paris in 1761. There he changed his first name and called himself like his son, Jean-Baptiste. From 1764 he was violon ordinaire of the royal chapel of Versailles and from 1772 he was maître de violon of the Count of Provence, later King Louis XVIII. Cardon went blind and was exempt from his services from 1782 at a pension of 2,400 livres. Cardon published a treatise in 1786 under the title " Le rudiment de la musique, ou Principes de cet art à la portée de tout le monde, par questions et réponses ".

Several of the children born of Marie-Anne Petit's marriage became musicians. Was especially known Jean-Baptiste Cardon (1760-1803), known as the "first Harp Master ”of the imperial family worked at the court of Saint Petersburg . Further sons were the violinist, Louis-Stanislas Cardon (1761–1797) and Pierre-Hyacinthe Cardon (* 1769), cellist at the Concert spirituel and the Théâtre-Italien in Paris.

Works (selection)

Most of his works were published by the publisher La Chevadière in Paris, mostly published under the Italianized name of Giovanni Battista Cardoni.

  • "Six trios à grand orchester" (1768)
  • "Six trios dont trois à grand orchester, et trois à parties simples" (1772)
  • "Sei sonate a due violini e basso" (1761)
  • "6 sonates pour le violon" (1768)
  • "6 sonates pour le violon seul et basse" (around 1770)
  • " Six nouveaux duos pour le violon, d'un genre modern " (1770)
  • " Marche du Huron et Marche des Janissaires avec des variations pour le violon "
  • "3 Sonates à violon seul avec la basse" (1779)
vocal
  • " Les amusements de Melpomène " (1768)
  • " Recueil d'ariettes nouvelles avec accompagnements de violon, flûte, basson et basse " (1770)
  • " Recueil d'ariettes, chansons, brunettes avec accompagnements de guitarre " (1773)

Web link

Individual evidence

  • Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen-Age à nos jours , pp. 109–110, Editions: "Art in Belgium" 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7 , (French)
personal data
SURNAME Cardon, Jean-Guillain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardoni, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Mons
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1788
Place of death Versailles