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Louis-Claude Daquin (or d'Acquin), (July 4, 1694 – June 15, 1772) was a French composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 and Galant
Galant

In music, Galant was a term referring to a style, principally occurring in the third quarter of the 18th century, which featured a return to Classical music era simplicity after the complexity of the late Baroque music era....
 styles. He was a virtuoso organist
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
 and harpsichord
Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
ist.

s-Claude Daquin was born in Paris
Paris

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, to a converted Jewish family from Carpentras
Carpentras

Carpentras is a town and communes of France in the departments of France of Vaucluse in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur regions of France of France....
 originating from Italy (where their name was D'Acquino).






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Louis Claude Daquin
Louis-Claude Daquin (or d'Acquin), (July 4, 1694 – June 15, 1772) was a French composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 and Galant
Galant

In music, Galant was a term referring to a style, principally occurring in the third quarter of the 18th century, which featured a return to Classical music era simplicity after the complexity of the late Baroque music era....
 styles. He was a virtuoso organist
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
 and harpsichord
Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
ist.

Life

Louis-Claude Daquin was born in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, to a converted Jewish family from Carpentras
Carpentras

Carpentras is a town and communes of France in the departments of France of Vaucluse in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur regions of France of France....
 originating from Italy (where their name was D'Acquino). One of his great-uncles was a professor of Hebrew at the College de France
Collège de France

The Coll?ge de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Ecoles....
. Daquin was a musical child prodigy, for he performed for the court of King Louis XIV at the age of six. He was for a while a pupil of Louis Marchand. At the age of 12, he became organist at the Sainte-Chapelle
Sainte-Chapelle

La Sainte-Chapelle is a Gothic architecture chapel on the ?le de la Cit? in the heart of Paris, France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture....
, and in the following year took a similar post at the church of the Petit St. Antoine.

In 1727 Daquin was appointed organist at the church of St. Paul in Paris, besting Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theory of the Baroque music era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French author of music for the harpsichord of his time, alongside Fran?ois Couperin....
 for the job. Five years later he became organist, succeeding Louis Marchand, at the Cordeliers. In 1739 he became organist to the king. In 1755 he succeeded Antoine Calvière as titular organist at the cathedral
Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a Religion building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christian and some Lutheranism churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a dioc...
 of Notre-Dame de Paris.

By reputation a dazzling performer at the keyboard, Daquin was much appreciated by the aristocracy and his great expertise at the organ drew considerable crowds to hear him. As a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist, he was known for his "unfaltering precision and evenness".

Compositions

At age eight, he conducted his own choral work, Beatus Vir. Some of his harpsichord improvisations went into his Nouveau livre de noëls which was published in 1757. Trois cadences is another highly original keyboard work which uses a triple trill. Daquin's surviving music includes four harpsichord suites, settings of Christmas pastorals (noëls), a cantata
Cantata

A cantata is a vocal music music composition with an musical instrument accompaniment and often containing more than one movement ....
, and an air à boire
Air à boire

Air ? boire is a French term which was used between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries for a "drinking song". These were generally strophic, syllabic songs to light texts....
. Among the most famous of his works are the Swiss Noel (Noël Suisse) and Le Coucou (The Cuckoo
Cuckoo

The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos ....
) which is from his 1735 harpsichord book. (Coucou).

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See also

  • French organ school
  • French baroque harpsichordists


External links

  • Click one of these links to listen to 3 "Noëls" on the organ