Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet De La Guerre

About Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet De La Guerre

Who is it?: Composer
Birth Day: March 16, 2017
Birth Place: Paris, French
Died On: June 27, 1729
Birth Sign: Aries

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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet De La Guerre was born on March 16, 2017 in Paris, French, is Composer. One of the most renowned women composers of her period, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre stamped a respectable place for herself in history. Extremely talented, Jacquet was called "the marvel of our century” by critics when she was just thirteen. The world realised and recognized Elisabeth Jacquet as a composer, performer and improviser even in her early childhood. King Louis XIV supported her financially and morally, thus becoming her patron. Even after meeting with some of the greatest tragedies of her life, Elisabeth Jacquet engaged passionately in composing and took her audience to a new world of music. She was held in high regard for her strong character and the way in which she led the life of a professional musician, especially in an age when women hardly came to the limelight for their creative abilities. Read through the next section of this article to know more about this virtuoso.
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Famous Quotes:

"marvellous facility for playing preludes and fantasies off the cuff. Sometimes she improvises one or another for a whole half hour with tunes and harmonies of great variety and in quite the best possible taste, quite charming her listeners." (Le Parnasse Français, 1732)

Biography/Timeline

1694

Her first published work was her Premier livre de pièces de clavessin which includes unmeasured preludes and was printed in 1687. It was one of the few collections of harpsichord pieces printed in France in the 17th Century, along with those of Chambonnières, Lebègue and d'Anglebert. During the 1690s she composed a ballet, Les Jeux à l'honneur de la victoire (c. 1691), which has subsequently been lost. On 15 March 1694, the production of her opera Céphale et Procris at the Académie Royale de Musique was the first of an opera written by a woman in France. The five-act tragédie lyrique was set to a libretto by Duché de Vancy. Like her contemporaries, she also experimented with Italian genres: principally the sonata and the cantata. In 1695 she composed a set of trio sonatas which, with those of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Jean-Féry Rebel and Sébastien de Brossard, are among the earliest French examples of the sonata.

1707

During the next few years many of her near relations died, including her only son who was ten years old, her mother, father, husband, and brother Nicolas. She continued to perform, however, and in 1707 her collection Pièces de Clavecin qui peuvent se jouer sur le Violon, a new set of harpsichord pieces, was published, followed by six Sonates pour le violon et pour le clavecin. These works are an early Example of the new genre of accompanied harpsichord works, where the instrument is used in an obbligato role with the violin; Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concerts are somewhat of the same type. The dedication of the 1707 work speaks of the continuing admiration and patronage of Louis XIV:

1708

She returned to vocal composition with the publication of two books of Cantates françoises sur des sujets tirez de l'Ecriture in 1708 and 1711. Her last published work was a collection of secular Cantates françoises (c. 1715). In the inventory of her possessions after her death, there were three harpsichords: a small instrument with white and black keys, one with black keys, and a large double manual Flemish harpsichord.

1990

During the 1990s there was a renewed interest in her compositions and a number have been recorded.

2019

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (née Elisabeth Jacquet) was born into a family of Musicians and master instrument-makers in the parish of Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, Paris. A child Prodigy, she received her initial musical education from her father and performed on the harpsichord at a young age before King Louis XIV. As a teenager she was accepted into the French court where her education was supervised by the king’s mistress, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. She stayed with the royal court until it moved to Versailles and in 1684 she married the organist Marin de La Guerre, son of the late organist at the Sainte-Chapelle, Michel de La Guerre. After her marriage she taught, composed, and gave concerts at home and throughout Paris, to great acclaim.