Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV.
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21 Facts About Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier mastered all genres, and his skill in writing sacred vocal music was especially hailed by his contemporaries.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier began his career by going to Italy, there he fell under the influence of Giacomo Carissimi as well as other Italian composers, perhaps Domenico Mazzocchi.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier would remain marked by the Italian style and become the only one with Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville in France to approach the oratorio.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier became the composer of the Carmelites of Rue du Bouloir, Montmartre Abbey, Abbaye-aux-Bois and Port-Royal.
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In 1698, Marc-Antoine Charpentier was appointed music master for the children of the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed secular works, stage music, operas, cantatas, sonatas, symphonies, as well as sacred music, motets, oratorios, masses, psalms, Magnificats, Litanies.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier spent "two or three years" in Rome, probably between 1667 and 1669, and studied with Giacomo Carissimi.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier is known to have been in contact with poet-musician Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, who was composing for the French Embassy in Rome.
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In 1679, Marc-Antoine Charpentier had been singled out to compose for Louis XIV's son, the Dauphin.
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From late 1687 to early 1698, Marc-Antoine Charpentier served as maitre de musique to the Jesuits, working first for their college of Louis-le-Grand and then for the church of Saint-Louis adjacent to the order's professed house on the rue Saint-Antoine.
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Once he moved to Saint-Louis, Marc-Antoine Charpentier virtually ceased writing oratorios and instead primarily wrote musical settings of psalms and other liturgical texts such as the Litanies of Loreto.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier was appointed maitre de musique for the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in 1698, a royal post he held until his death in 1704.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier died at Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, and was buried in the little walled-in cemetery just behind the choir of the chapel.
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In 1727, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's heirs sold his autograph manuscripts to the Royal Library, today the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's compositions include oratorios, masses, operas, lecons de tenebres, motets and numerous smaller pieces that are difficult to categorize.
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Many of his smaller works for one or two voices and instruments resemble the Italian cantata of the time, and share most features except for the name: Marc-Antoine Charpentier calls them airs serieux or airs a boire if they are in French, but cantata if they are in Italian.
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Not only did Charpentier compose during that "transitory period" so important to the "evolution of musical language, where the modality of the ancients and the emerging tonal harmony coexisted and mutually enriched one another", but he was a respected theoretician.
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