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BNF, catalogue :
Objet
"Cardonne, Philibert (1730-179.?) - forme savante à valeur internationale.
Naissance : 1730-01-16 -
Mort : 179.?
Musicien. - Fut maître de luth des pages de la chambre. - Composa des ballets, des sonates et des partitions de tragédie lyrique.
Forme(s) rejetée(s) :
< Cardonne, Jean-Baptiste."
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Grove Music Online
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DEANNE ARKUS KLEIN : 'Cardonne, Jean-Baptiste', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Cardonne, Jean-Baptiste [Philibert]
(b Versailles, 26 June 1730; d after Aug 1792). French composer, harpsichordist and singer. The alternative first name Philibert apparently originated with Fétis. His father was head clerk of the royal house, and Cardonne began his career as a royal page, receiving music instruction from Collin de Blamont. He was a child prodigy; at the age of 13 a motet for large choir by him was performed before the king and at 15 he had an air tendre published in the Mercure de France (February 1746). His reputation quickly grew and pieces by him were included in the programmes of the royal chapel at Versailles and the Concert Spirituel. In 1745 he joined the royal chapel as singer and harpsichordist. During the 1750s he was a choir member at the Marquise de Pompadour’s theatre. There he was influenced by pastorales and ballets, and in 1752 his own pastorale Amaryllis was performed for the queen at Compiègne. In 1755 Cardonne received the title maître du luth des pages de la chambre. When in 1761 the musical resources of the chapel and the chamber were combined, this rather unusual position (the lute was seldom used in France at this time) was abolished and Cardonne became sous-maître of pages and harpsichordists.
Cordonne enjoyed great royal favour during the 1760s, particularly from Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony and the daughters of Louis XV, for whom he was commissioned to write his harpsichord sonatas and his ariettas op.2. By 1768, however, the dauphin, the dauphine and the queen had died, and Cardonne was retired as a former officier de la dauphine. He then turned to opera, choosing for his first work La Motte’s tragedy Omphale […] After failing to have his opera Epaphus produced he returned to the court and composed chamber music for the Comtesse de Provence, sister-in-law of Louis XVI. In 1780 he succeeded Berton as maître de la musique du roi; from 1781 he was surintendant honoraire. He maintained his position as maître at least until August 1792, but with the fall of the monarchy in September of that year public notices of him ceased."
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