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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He was a prolific and versatile composer, producing music of the highest quality in several genres. His mastery in the composition of sacred vocal music was recognised and acknowledged by his contemporaries. Charpentier was born in or near Paris, the son of a master scribe who had very good connections to influential families in the Parlement of Paris. Marc-Antoine received a very good education, perhaps with the help of the Jesuits, and registered for law school in Paris when he was eighteen. He was in Rome, probably between 1667 and 1669, and studied with Giacomo Carissimi. There is a legend that Charpentier initially travelled to Rome to study painting before he was discovered by Carissimi. This story is undocumented and possibly untrue. Regardless, he acquired a solid knowledge of the contemporary Italian practice that he brought to France upon his return. Most likely he worked for Marie de Lorraine, duchesse de Guise on his return to France, as her house composer, until her death in 1688. During this time he composed a considerable quantity of dramatic secular vocal works, as well as Psalm settings, hymns, a Magnificat setting, a mass, and motets, which he called stories and canticum. Beginning around 1672, he worked with Molière, after Molière's falling out with Jean-Baptiste Lully. During the 1680s Charpentier served as maître de musique at the Jesuits' Paris church of St. Louis. In add
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Et pergentes pariter
15,0552Xenia pastores Christo portanda
14,3253Te Deum
14,1374Aether umbrosus nigro velamine
11,8525Magnificat a quatre voix H.80
11,1166Ecquid ad surdos
9,7677Noel: Les bourgeois de Chatres, H.534
8,8918Et intrantes domum
8,6839Canticum in nativitatem Domini, 'Frigidae noctis umbra': Marche
7,97510kyrie from Messe des morts
7,923albums
Trois histoires sacrées
CHARPENTIER 3 CD Box (France only)
CHARPENTIER: Noels and Christmas Motets
La Musique au temps de Martin Marais
Charpentier, M.-A.: Noels and Christmas Motets, Vol. 1
Charpentier: Te Deum; Litanies de la Vierge & Missa "Assumpta est Maria"
CHARPENTIER: Motets / Litanies a la Vierge
CHARPENTIER: Noels and Christmas Motets, Vol. 2
Charpentier: Te Deum, H.146, Litanies de la Vierge & Missa "Assumpta est Maria"
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Trois histoires sacred
Charpentier à la chapelle royale de Versailles
Charpentier: Te Deum; Messe de Minuit; Nuit