Jean Desfontaines
Jean Desfontaines (* around 1658, † after 1752) was a French composer and gambist of the Baroque .
Live and act
Jean Desfontaines was a student of the viol player Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (le vieux). As a musician working in Paris , Desfontaines may never have held an official position and was still a prolific master.
Desfontaines left behind an extensive work of secular music, such as his Airs de Cour ( Airs sérieux and Airs à boire ), which were printed in various anthologies by the publisher Christophe Ballard (1641-1715). His cantata Narcisse and a pastoral Le Désespoir de Tircis , which came to Stockholm with the French theater company of Jean Guillemay du Chesnay (pseudonym Rosidor ), and is kept in the University Library of Uppsala , are also well known.
His ecclesiastical compositions include 192 works, which are kept in twelve edited volumes in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The first eleven volumes contain 150 Psalms of David , some of which are quite extensive and can contain up to 600 bars, as well as a Magnificat anima mea . The last volume contains 41 petits motets based on liturgical or old Latin texts.
literature
- Carl-Allan Moberg: Un compositeur oublié de l'école de Lully: Jean Desfontaines in Revue de Musicologie, T. 10, No. 29 (February, 1929), pages 5-9
Web links
- Les cent cinquante Pseaumes de David on Gallica BnF
- Sheet music and audio files by Jean Desfontaines in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short CV Desfontaines and description of the works on the website of the Center musique baroque de Versailles
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desfontaines, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French gambist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1658 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1752 |