Jacques Champion of Chambonnières

Jacques Champion of Chambonnières is a Compositeur and Claveciniste French (towards 1601 - 1672). It carried its art to an high degree of perfection and refinement.

Jacques Champion of Chambonnières is regarded as the founder of the French École of harpsichord. Resulting from a family from musicians and organists with the service from kings de France since François I {{er}}, harpsichordist incomparable according to his contemporaries it is indeed the first which acquires a real notoriety of type-setter and interpreter on this instrument to which all its work is dedicated. It is him which discovered the talent of Louis Couperin and made it come to Paris. It gave concerts deprived at his place, engaging of the musicians with high expenses, and claimed to make music as a dilettante.

Sumptuous musician who rolled fits with body and wanted to be large lord, it fell in disgrace to have refused to play the low continuous one in works of Jean-Baptiste Lully, task which it regarded as unworthy of him. Its taste of the luxury made that its second marries left it, and it finished its life in a certain embarrassment. Its load of harpsichordist of the king, refused by Louis Couperin in regard to its benefactor, was taken again by Jean-Henri d' Anglebert, one of its pupils. Itself was devoted then to the publication of its work (two collections published in 1670, first in France). All the parts of its composition do not appear, certain there being found in manuscripts such as the Manuscrit Bauyn. The integrality of its production consists of parts of dance, which are not gathered in continuations: the interpreter constitutes itself a continuation by choosing parts available in the tonality chosen, following the use of time.

Chambonnières adapts to the Clavecin the elements of the Suite of dances of the Luth ists and the luthé style or “style broken” - which consists with arpéger the agreements, with the manner of the latter. This style will characterize the French music of harpsichord during several tens of years.

Discography

  • Francoise Lengellé, Chambonnières: Parts of Harpsichord (1 CD Lyrinx) (1985)
  • Skip Sempé (1 CD Deutsche Harmonized) (1992)
  • Olivier Baumont, Jacques Champion of Coal-scuttles: Parts of clavessin (2 CD Abeille Musique). Accompanied by a French booklet/English good documented on the life of J. CH. of Chambonnières (2003)

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