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Louis-Nicolas Clrambault
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Louis-Nicolas Clrambault
Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
2.1 By opus number
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Born
Biography
19 December 1676
Paris, France
Died
Clrambault became the organist at the church of the Grands-Augustins and entered the service of
Madame de Maintenon. After the death of Louis XIV and Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, he succeeded
the latter at the organ of the church of Saint-Sulpice and the royal house of Saint-Cyr, an institution
for young girls from the poor nobility. He was responsible there for music, the organ, directing
chants and choir, etc. It was in this postit remained his after the death of Madame de
Maintenonthat he developed the genre of the "French cantata" of which he was the uncontested
master. In 1719 he succeeded his teacher Andr Raison at the organs of the church of the GrandsJacobins.
His Motet du Saint Sacrement in G major is one of
the first French works known to have been
performed in Philadelphia.[1]
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Works
His important published work includes:
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a large number of religious pieces with chants and choirs, (motets, hymns, Magnificat, Te
Deum etc.);
more than 25 secular cantatas on subjects often inspired by Greco-Roman myths;
sonatas for violin and basso continuo:
a book of dance pieces for the harpsichord (1704) in which he adopted the tradition of the
unmeasured prelude;
a book of organ pieces in two suites (1710) in which melodic charm wins out over religious
spirit. These two collections seemed destined to begin a cycle of pieces in all keys but
Clrambault never completed the cycle.
By opus number
1: Cantata Book I No. 1: L'amour piqu
par une abeille
2: Cantata Book I No. 2: Le jaloux
3: Cantata Book I No. 3: Orphe
4: Cantata Book I No. 4: Polyphme
5: Cantata Book I No. 5: Mde
6: Cantata Book I No. 6: L'amour et
Bacchus
7: Cantata Book II No. 1: Alphe et
Arthuse
8: Cantata Book II No. 2: Landre et Hro
9: Cantata Book II No. 3: La musette
10: Cantata Book II No. 4: Pirame et Tisb
11: Cantata Book II No. 5: Pigmalion
12: Cantata Book II No. 6: Le triomphe de
la paix
13: Cantata: Le bouclier de Minerve
14: Cantata: Abraham
15: Cantata Book III No. 1: Apollon
16: Cantata Book III No. 2: Zphire et
Flore
17: Cantata Book III No. 3: L'isle de Dlos
18: Cantata Book III No. 4: La mort
d'Hercule
19: Cantata: La muse de l'Opra
20: Cantata Book IV No. 1: L'amour guri
par l'amour
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See also
French organ school
References
1. Annals of Music in Philadelphia (http://books.google.com/books?id=j4QfAAAAYAAJ&
printsec=frontcover&dq=Annals+of+Music+History&source=bl&ots=QB1wEa4LmA&
sig=4uv65EH095zi_YNxFKIgJCR3uRo&hl=en&ei=4fJsS9XhN5L-tQP9uLyxDQ&
sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false)
External links
Media related to Louis-Nicolas Clrambault at Wikimedia Commons
Free scores by Louis-Nicolas Clrambault at the International Music Score Library Project
Preceded by
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
Succeeded by
Csar-Franois
Clrambault
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Categories: 1676 births 1749 deaths Baroque composers Composers for pipe organ
French classical composers French male classical composers French classical organists
Musicians from Paris 18th-century keyboardists 18th-century classical composers
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