Jean de Cambefort explained

Jean de Cambefort (– 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music.^[1] He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (recits) for the Ballet de la Nuit, performed in 1653.^[2]

Works

• Ballet de la Nuit, 1653;
• Récit du temps et des quatre saisons, v Ballet du Temps (LWV 1), 1654;
• Airs de cour, Parigi, 1651;
• II. livre d’airs, Parigi, 1655;
• 17 arias, from 1651 and 1655.

Bibliography

• Burden, Michael; Thorp, Jennifer (2009; revised 2010). Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. . Product page for the revised edition at Pendragon.
• McGowan, Margaret M. (2001). "Cambefort, Jean de" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook).
• Prunières, Henry (1912). "Jean de Cambefort, surintendant de la musique du roi, d'après des documents inédits", L'Année musicale, pp. 205–226.

Notes and References

1. McGowan 2001.
2. Part books of 1655 for II. livre d'airs à quatre parties, de Monsieur de Cambefort. Sur-intendant et maistre ordinaire de la Musique de la Chambre du Roy: haute-contre, basse-contre, and basse-continue, published online at Gallica on September 3, 2015.