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Margaret M. McGOWAN : 'Cambefort, Jean de', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Cambefort, Jean de
(b c1605; d Paris, 4 May 1661). French composer and singer. He began his career as a singer in Cardinal Richelieu’s private chapel. After Richelieu’s death in 1642 he transferred his allegiance to Cardinal Mazarin, who always remained his loyal patron and to whom he dedicated his second book of airs de cour. In 1644, through Mazarin’s influence, he succeeded François de Chancy as maître des enfants de la chambre du roi and immediately discovered a rival in Jean-Baptiste Boësset, who was protected by Jean Baptiste Colbert. In 1650, again through Mazarin’s influence, he became compositeur de la musique de la chambre to Louis XIV. In 1655, by order of the king, he went to Languedoc to recruit new choirboys. When, five years later, he failed to obtain the post of maître de la musique de la reine he addressed a letter of complaint to Mazarin. This shows his own good opinion of himself, for he judged that both Le Camus and Boësset, who were successful, lacked the qualities necessary for the post. He did, however, hold the appointment of surintendant de la musique du roi (which Lully acquired after his death). He was married to a niece of Paul Auget.
Cambefort wrote all the music sung in the Ballet de la nuit, which Menestrier considered the most accomplished of all ballets de cour. He also contributed at least one air to the Ballet du temps (1654) and in the same year sang a number of songs in Carlo Caproli’s Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti. […]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
C.F. Menestrier: Des ballets anciens et modernes (Paris, 1682/R), 176.
H. Prunières: ‘Jean de Cambefort, surintendant de la musique du Roi (…–1661) d’après des documents inédits’, Année musicale, ii (1912), 205–26.
L.E.S.J. de Laborde: Musiciens de Paris, 1535–1792, ed Y. de Brossard (Paris, 1965/R).
M.-F. Christout: Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV, 1643–1672 (Paris, 1967).
G. Durosoir: L’air de cour en France, 1571–1655 (Liège, 1991)."
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