Pierre Tabart

Pierre Tabart ( born August 21, 1645 Chinon; † in December 1716 in Meaux ) was a French composer of the Baroque.

Life

Pierre Tabart received his training as a choirboy at the cathedral of Tours. He also received his priestly ordination in Tours and was then Maître de musique at the cathedral of Orléans. 1683 he applied for the post of the " sous- maîtres de la chapelle du roi " at the court of Versailles, but this was probably awarded to a musician who was the new style more closely associated. But Tabart was Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Senlis. Probably from 1685 in Meaux, he was appointed in 1689 by Bishop Jacques- Bénigne Bossuet as successors of Nicolas Goupillet ( 1650-1613 ) at the Cathedral of St. Étienne Kapellmeister. 1698, after the end of the period of service at the Cathedral, he remained in the town where he (presumably a chapel of the cathedral ) had a house and lucrative sinecures. His successor as Kapellmeister of the cathedral was Sébastien de Brossard, in whose extensive collection of music were several works Tabarts.

Tabart left some polyphonic fairs, a requiem and a 5 bc, a Te Deum, a Magnificat a 5 and bc and several motets, which are reckoned to his early works.