Marc-Antoine de Dampierre
Marc-Antoine Marquis de Dampierre , (born December 26, 1676 in Pisseleu near Beauvais , † June 17, 1756 in Versailles ) was lord of Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas, hunting master under Louis XV. and a famous wind player of the Trompe de Chasse , for which he wrote numerous fanfares.
Live and act
He was a page at the Grande Mademoiselle and then at the Duke and Duchess of Maine in Sceaux , where he learned to blow the hunting horn and to hunt. He became gentilhomme (nobleman) of the duke, in 1698 after the death of his father Marquis and in 1709 took over the supervision of his hunts. In 1722 he became Gentilhomme des Menus-Plaisirs (nobleman of small pleasures) with the king and responsible for his hunts. In this role he had his own room in the castles of Fontainebleau , Rambouillet , St. Germain and Compiègne .
In 1723 he composed his first fanfare Royale au bois de Boulogne after further developing a suitable hunting horn in collaboration with coppersmiths in Paris (à la Dampierre with a one and a half turn). For the birth of the heir to the throne ( Dauphin ) in 1729, he developed a more tightly wound hunting horn (à la Dauphin, with two and a half turns). In 1729 he was given the command of the King’s equipage for the hare hunt and in 1738 for the fallow deer hunt. He continued his participation in the royal hunts into old age. According to the memoirs of the Duc de Luynes , he is said to have hunted at the age of 73.
He was famous as a hunting horn virtuoso and also appeared in orchestral performances at court, for example in the Symphonie guerrière by André Danican Philidor . His famous fanfares include La Dampière , La Royale (only played in the presence of the king), La Prince de France (only played if one of the princes of royal blood was present) and Les Honneurs du pied . Twenty-six of his fanfares were published as an appendix to a volume of poetry by Jean Serré de Rieux (1668–1747) in 1734, a second collection of 1756 contained 33 fanfares.
He married Justine Colomès in Versailles in 1705.
He was a good musician who also played the violin, viola da gamba and flute and was friends with composers such as Jean-Joseph Mouret , Michel-Richard Delalande , Nicolas Bernier , André Campra and Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville . In Sceaux (which was famous for its festivals) and Versailles, he also took part in theatrical performances.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Marquis De Dampierre ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Club Sonneurs Normand .
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| SURNAME | Dampierre, Marc-Antoine de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dampierre, Marc-Antoine, Marquis de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1676 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pisseleu at Beauvais |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1756 |
| Place of death | Versailles |