Marc antoine charpentier biography of george michael
Baroque music, operas, sacred.
Charpentier, Marc Antoine
Baroque composer noted for his oratorios; b. Paris, c. 1634; d.
Marc antoine charpentier biography of george michael
Paris, Feb. 24, 1704. He was a versatile and artistic man who had intended to become a painter, but he studied music in Italy with carissimi and became the leader of the Italian camp in the war between French and Italian tastes.
His career included posts with the Princesse de Guise and the Duc d'Orléans (later regent), then at the Jesuit College, and finally, in 1698, at Sainte-Chapelle.
A fecund composer, Charpentier produced both sacred and secular forms, including Masses, motets, Leçons de ténèbres, a Magnificat, a Te Deum, cantatas, many theater works (an opera, Medée, was produced in Paris in 1693), songs, and occasional pieces, in addition to the two dozen oratorios (Histoires sacrées ), of which La Reniement de St.
Pierre (The Denial of St. Peter) is best known. Although the grand motet was to become the great form of the "spiritual concerts"