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Jean de Cambefort
7+ albums
frenchbaroque17th century
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Jean de Cambefort, born around 1605 and died on May 4, 1661, was a French composer and singer active in Paris at the court of France . His father was Antoine de Cambefort, bourgeois of Montricoux (near Montauban ) in Quercy , who had already died inAugust 1651, and his mother Adrienne from La Vogue . He was identified in 1635 as a singer attached to the private chapel of Cardinal Richelieu. He says in the preface to his Airs of 1655 that it is to the king that he owes this position. This point is very interesting: the fact that Cambefort was of provincial origin and that the king could recommend him before 1635 suggests that he had been recruited locally when he was a child to sing in the King's Chamber, and that the king had enough affection for him to think about his future. In 1643, Cambefort was also prior of Saint-Julien-Chapteuil in the diocese of Puy-en-Velay . He resigns this prioress towards Jehan d'Atignac in an act ofDecember 29, 1643, with an annual and life annuity of 133 lt . Richelieu's death inoctober 164 2the fact that Louis XIII made him become attached to Cardinal Jules Mazarin , a keen music lover; Cambefort will move into his palace on rue des Petits-Champs. He remained attached to Mazarin for a long time and in 1655 dedicated his second book of tunes to him. His service for Mazarin did not prevent him from frequenting the court since the king liked him very much; he was one of the familiar singers whom the king gathered around him to distract himself
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Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Première Veille, la Nuit: "Languissante clarté, cachez-vous dessous l'onde" (la Nuit)
1292Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Grand Ballet, Le Soleil: "Depuis que j'ouvre l'Orient" (l'Aurore)
1053Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Première Veille, la Nuit: "Je descends pour charmer ses yeux et ses oreilles" (la Nuit)
984Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Première Veille, la Nuit: "Vous poussez le Soleil à bout" (Les Heures)
965Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Première Veille, la Nuit: "Tenez donc vos rideaux tirez" (Les Heures)
816Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Seconde Veille, Vénus & les Grâces: "Fuyez bien loin, ennemis de la joye" (Vénus)
607Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Quatrième Veille, Orphée: Dialogue du Sommeil & du Silence (JC)
608Ballet Royal de la Nuit: Récit de la Nuit: "Languissante clarté, cachez-vous dessous l’onde"
539Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Troisième Veille, Hercule amoureux: "Moy dont les froideurs sont cognuës" (la Lune)
4210Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Première Veille, la Nuit: "Languissante clarté, cachez-vous dessous
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