Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
Louis -Nicolas Clérambault ( born December 19, 1676 in Paris, † October 26, 1749 ) was a French composer and organist.
Life
The son of Dominique Clérambault (1644-1704), one of the Vingt- quatre Violons du Roy at the court of Louis XIV, began in early youth with learning the violin and the harpsichord. He received organ lessons from André Raison and composition by Jean -Baptiste Moreau ( 1656-1733 ). At the age of thirteen, he composed his first ' Grand Motet ". Subsequently, he was organist at the Church of the Grands -Augustins and 1710 at Saint- Sulpice.
1705 came Clérambault in the courtly service, where he organized concerts and cantatas wrote. After the death of Louis XIV in 1715, the Court moved to Paris. Clérambault worked as a successor to Guillaume Gabriel Nivers at the Demoiselles de Maintenon at the Royal institution " Maison de Saint -Louis " in Saint- Cyr- l'École, a refuge for daughters of impoverished nobility. This school was founded by Madame de Maintenon, the mistress and later wife of the king to life. Here Clérambault gave music lessons, played the organ and conducted several choirs.
From a compositional point of view, he developed the typical French cantata during this time. This was like under Clérambault a sort of miniature opera, mostly for vocals with harpsichord and viol accompaniment, sometimes with violin and flute. The subjects were mostly - quite to the taste of time - from Greek mythology.
1719 he followed his teacher André Raison as organist at the Church of the Grands- Jacobins in the Rue Saint -Jacques. The family lived in the rue du Four in the district of Saint-Germain -des- Prés and its neighbors were fellow musicians Marc- Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, Jean -Philippe Rameau and Joseph Bodin de Bois Mortier. His two sons Cesar and Évrard were both organists and composers.
On March 23, 1737 he was initiated into the Masonic Lodge Cousto - Villeroy, the flutist Jacques -Christophe Naudot vouched for him.
After Clérambaults death, his son César -François Nicolas took over (around 1705-1760 ), organist, after the death of the younger brother Évrard -Dominique Clérambault ( 1710-1790 ).
Works
Collection of manuscripts from the " Bibliothèque Nationale de France" in Paris. (Note: If the votes for flute the flute allemande the flute is often what you meant )
Undated works
- Sagesse éternelle
- Motet: Pour la sainte Vierge
- Domine for four voices and instruments
- Domine, for three voices and 2 violins
- Prière pour le roy (prayer for the king )
- 7 Sonatas et Symphonies for one or two violins and bass ( Italian style )
- Five volumes motets