CHARPENTIER, MARC-ANTOINE. - Musician, b. in Paris in 1634, d. there on 24 Feb. 1704. He trained at the school of Carissimi in Rome, where he had come to study painting. In his homeland he became one of the greatest chapel masters at the court of the king and of Madame de Guise; the Duke of Orléans wanted him as his superintendent of music. Disgusted by Lully's hostility, he left the theater, to which he had given more than 25 operas, and devoted himself to sacred composition.

Having become music master of numerous religious houses and finally of the Ste-Chapelle, where he was buried, he composed various oratorios (David et Jonathan, L'enfant prodigue, Le reniement de St Pierre), a Dialogus inter Christum et peccatorem, motets, masses for 2-4-5-6-7-8 voices and even for choirs, a Requiem for 4 voices, many psalms, Lamentationes for 1-2-4 voices with orchestra, etc., the manuscripts of which are for the most part preserved in the National Library of Paris.

Bibliography

BIBL.: M. Brenet, Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, Paris 1910.

Luisa Cervelli

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Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

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