Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (née Élisabeth Jacquet, March 17 1665, Paris – June 27 1729, Paris) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.

Contents

1 Life
2 Works
3 See also
4 External links
5 Sources
6 Bibliography

Life

A childhood prodigy, Elisabeth Jacquet played the harpsichord before King Louis XIV to inaugurate her career as a virtuoso performer. She married the organist Marin de La Guerre in 1684. Thereafter she was known as Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Works

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was one of the few women composers of her time. There has been a renaissance of interest in her work and a number have been recorded in recent years. The work of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre includes:

Dance suites for the harpsichord (2 collections: 1687 and 1707) ;
Opera Céphale et Procris (1694) ;
Trio sonatas (1695) ;
Sonatas for violin and harpsichord(1707) ;
Cantatas: of both a religious (1708 and 1711) and secular nature (around 1715).

Her collection of harpsichord pieces 1687 was one of the few such books printed in France in the 17th-century.

External links

[Biography on Goldbergweb.com]

Sources

[Article on Jacquet de la Guerre in the French Wikipedia]

Bibliography

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV by Catherine Cessac, Paris 1995 Ed. Actes Sud