Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Élisabeth- Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (born Élisabeth Jacquet, baptized March 17, 1665 in Paris, † June 27, 1729 in Paris) was a French composer and harpsichordist.

As the daughter of the organist Claude Jacquet Élisabeth- Claude Jacquet was popular in childhood as Konzertcembalistin. At the age of 5 she played before King Louis XIV and was taken by his mistress, Madame de Montespan in custody. The king supported financially and later allowed to bring their compositional musical works are performed. Your success can be traced to the Mercure Galant. The Weimar music writer and composer Johann Gottfried Walther brought 1732 be Musicalisches Lexicon out, in which he quotes from the "miracle of our century ": " Jaquier (sic) a small and unmarried French woman room around 1678, so tractieret the Clavessin, is the Mercure Galant ac in Decembre Month, p. 80 la merveille de Siecle nostre genennet. " In 1684, she married the organist Marin de la Guerre. The French Élisabeth- Claude Jacquet de La Guerre belongs together with the Italians Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonardazu today " established " to be designated composers of the Baroque. She was the first female composer of France who composed an opera, which was performed at the Opéra in Paris. It is cephalic et Procris, a tragédie - lyrique with Prologue and five acts, libretto: Duchy of Vancy.

Work (selection)

• Clergy (1708 and 1711) and secular (1715 ) Cantatas Cantata Le Sommeil d' Ulisse ( 1715 )