Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: 2-6 March

[doversoul1]

My two and a half reasons to be listening to this CoW, ignoring the usual copy&paste information on the website, are:

1. She is a French Baroque composer
2. I have never heard of her or her music.
2 1/2. a woman composer (but so what…?)

Here are some samples of her music.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=Jacquet+de+La+Guerre%3A&work=&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=

[MickyD]

I first heard her music on an old Argo LP, recorded on a fine sounding instrument by Kenneth Gilbert.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I always think of her as Liz Flak-Jacket

Must confess to complete ignorance of her music though

[vinteuil]

... I first encountered her music through a stunning disc by Carole Cerasi, highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000024184

[doversoul1]

You could say that Jacquet de La Guerre’s music is just like any other French Baroque composers’ music. That’s a good enough reason for me to be quite excited about the prospect of hearing four more hours of this composer’s works. I thought the cantata was very good.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - some very impressive Music on today's programme: I'd never heard any of her work before, so I'm particularly grateful.

[Nick Armstrong]

... I first encountered her music through a stunning disc by Carole Cerasi, highly recommended.

Interesting to learn that she is another former resident of the Île Saint-Louis, like thee and me, vinrouge. Do you or does anyone know where on the island she resided? I've had a quick rummage round google but can't find it. Her dad was organist at the church on the island, the Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île so perhaps all we can do is infer that the family lived hard by the church...

[vinteuil]

... well, today Mr D told us that they moved in to rue Guillaume...

[Nick Armstrong]

... well, today Mr D told us that they moved in to rue Guillaume...

Ah... haven't heard today's yet.

So - rue Budé. Now we just need to know which front door.....

http://www.isl-paris.com/ile-saint-louis/FR/famille_id_62/Rue-Bude.html

Thanks, vinchaud

[vinteuil]

So - rue Budé.

... indeed so. Just round the corner from where I was (no 8)...

http://www.isl-paris.com/ile-saint-louis/FR/famille_id_66/Quai-d-Orleans.html

[Nick Armstrong]

... indeed so. Just round the corner from where I was (no 8)...

http://www.isl-paris.com/ile-saint-l...d-Orleans.html

Nice. And the next street from mine (no 5/6 - gaff of Baudelaire's mistress - pity that website can't spell his name... - and of a Revolutionary lawyer guillotined with Citizen Robespierre):

http://www.isl-paris.com/ile-saint-l...egrattier.html

[Anna]

But she didn't die there. In 1727 she left I’Ile-Saint-Louis for the Parish of Saint-Eustache where she rented an apartment in the Rue des Prouvaires. On 27th June 1729 she died and was buried the next day in the Church of Saint-Eustache.

(were your apartments as grand as your front doors?)

[Nick Armstrong]

(were your apartments as grand as your front doors?)

Mine was a tiny studio - I could literally touch both side walls by standing in the middle with both arms outstretched!

Ah to be young again, and in Paris!

[vinteuil]

(were your apartments as grand as your front doors?)

.... mine was extraordinarily grand. But HMG was paying for it, not I...

[Nick Armstrong]

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