Jean de Cambefort
Jean de Cambefort - compositeur et chanteur français
Person from France
Genres: baroque, french, 17th century
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About Jean de Cambefort
Jean de Cambefort, born around 1605 and died on May 4, 1661, was a French composer and singer active in Paris at the court of France . His father was Antoine de Cambefort, bourgeois of Montricoux (near Montauban ) in Quercy , who had already died inAugust 1651, and his mother Adrienne from La Vogue . He was identified in 1635 as a singer attached to the private chapel of Cardinal Richelieu. He says in the preface to his Airs of 1655 that it is to the king that he owes this position. This point is very interesting: the fact that Cambefort was of provincial origin and that the king could recommend him before 1635 suggests that he had been recruited locally when he was a child to sing in the King's Chamber, and that the king had enough affection for him to think about his future. In 1643, Cambefort was also prior of Saint-Julien-Chapteuil in the diocese of Puy-en-Velay . He resigns this prioress towards Jehan d'Atignac in an act ofDecember 29, 1643, with an annual and life annuity of 133 lt . Richelieu's death inoctober 164 2the fact that Louis XIII made him become attached to Cardinal Jules Mazarin , a keen music lover; Cambefort will move into his palace on rue des Petits-Champs. He remained attached to Mazarin for a long time and in 1655 dedicated his second book of tunes to him. His service for Mazarin did not prevent him from frequenting the court since the king liked him very much; he was one of the familiar singers whom the king gathered around him to distract himself from his illness . theNovember 17, 1643, shortly after the death of Louis XIII, Cambefort buys from François de Chancy half of the charge of master of the children of the King's Chamber, for 9000 lt and on condition that the wages are collected by half. An agreement between the two masters signed the same day provided that in the event of the death of one of the two, the survivor would take over the other half of the charge . He assumed this responsibility alone on the death of Chancy in 1656, with annual wages of 720 lt. He then rubbed his ambition with that of Jean-Baptiste Boësset , who was protected by Jean-Baptiste Colbert . theMay 11, 1648, Cambefort buys from François Richard for 2700 lt the survival of his position as composer of the music of the King's Chamber, with annual wages of 600 lt. The death of Richard means that he can enjoy it from 1650. Undoubtedly, his accession to these two prestigious positions should be seen as the powerful hand of his protector Mazarin. On the 21st andJuly 22, 1651, Cambefort buys from Paul Auget and Jean-Baptiste de Boësset the survival of the office of superintendent of the king's music . In 1654 he sang various roles in Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti by Carlo Caproli . His singing talents are unmistakable and he is credited with cultivating a dramatic style that owed nothing to Italian singing technique. The king sent him to Languedoc and Guyenne in 1655 to recruit new members for the music of his Chamber among the altar boys who sang in the local choirs. From this journey he brought back at least the young Baptiste Perroni, as evidenced by a letter of thanks from the king to the bishop of Bazas . In 1659, the marriage of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse of Austria (1638-1683) gave Cambefort the idea of applying for the position of Master of the Queen's Chapel; he solicits Mazarin for his support but does not obtain this charge, which Colbert gives to Sébastien Le Camus and Jean-Baptiste Boësset. Cambefort wrote to Mazarin on April 19, 1660to complain about it, considering that he had more title than the two recipients to receive this office (which shows at the very least the good opinion he had of himself) . On the death of Paul Auget, Cambefort obtained the post of superintendent of the king's music, alternating by district with Jean-Baptiste Boësset, with annual wages of 600 lt. He still buys October 8, 1660 to Jean-Baptiste Boësset, for 6000 lt the office of music master of the Chamber. Quickly supplanted by Lully in the favors of the king for all that concerns dramatic music, Cambefort seems to have turned to sacred music, but that which he was able to compose has not been preserved. Jean Loret recounts in his gazette theApril 23, 1661 his admiration for religious music which he heard during a concert conducted by him at the convent of the Feuillantsin Paris. But Cambefort died prematurely on May5following, and is buried in Saint-Eustache.
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