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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Musician in Paris

In this program, we present you with the music of acclaimed French baroque composer, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729). As a young child, the prodigious Jacquet astonished adults — including King Louis XIV — with her ability to compose and improvise at the keyboard. She composed sonatas, songs, cantatas, and even an opera, the first by a woman to be performed in Paris. Our goal this evening is not only to introduce you to Jacquet's music, something of which many of you may, indeed, already know — but to present her work in context rather than in isolation, and to reveal how she was influential to her contemporaries rather than the other way around, which is so often the narrative in discussions of female composers. A very active teacher in Paris, Jacquet wrote music whose influence is seen strongly in works by her contemporaries.

Portions of our live performance (September 2017) were featured on NPR's Performance Today. They're archived here:
March 15, 2018
March 23, 2018
March 26, 2018
March 28, 2018
May 17, 2018
May 31, 2018
June 19, 2018
June 22, 2018
October 29, 2018
​June 4, 2019

​"The Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque was the most delicately phrased – I’m tempted to say the most musical – rendition I’ve heard."
Read a review here.

PROGRAM

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Chaconne, Les Fontaines de Versailles (pub. Versailles, 1683) | Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726)

Symphonie en Re (published 1652) | Henri Dumont (1610–1684)

Sonate pour le Violon et pour le Clavecin, No. 5 in A Minor | Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
Lent
Presto
Adagio
Courante
Aria


Allemanda Gravis (published 1652) | Dumont

Concert pour Quatre Parties de Violes, H.545 (ca. 1680) | Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Prélude
Allemande
Sarabande, Rondeau
Gigue anglaise
Gigue française
Passacaille


Pièces de Clavecin, from Suite No. 1 in D Minor (Paris, 1687) | Jacquet de La Guerre
Prélude
Chaconne “L’Inconstante"


Trio Sonata, No. 4 in C minor | Jacquet de La Guerre
Lentement, Grave
Vif
Lentement
Vif


• PAUSE •

Pavane du Mariage du Roy Louis XIII (1615) | Anonymous (French, 17th century)

Fantasia à 4 | Étienne Moulinie (1599–1676)

Sonate pour le Violon et pour le Clavecin, No. 3 in F | Jacquet de La Guerre
Lent
Presto-Adagio
Presto
Aria
Adagio


Aria: "Souviens-toi," from La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers (1686) | Charpentier

Extracts from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43 (1670) | Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
L'Éntrée des Scaramouches
Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque
Chaconne des Scaramouches

2017–2018 was Women's Voices.

Prompted by a desire to respond to our political climate, each concert of 2017–2018 will be devoted to work by female composers from the early modern period. In so doing, we are performing a quintessential task of feminist musicology: shifting the point of power away from a domineering force and toward a minority voice—letting it sound, and letting it speak. 

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    • 2017–2018: Women's Voices
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