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Jaques Champignon de Chambonnières (1602-1672)

According to The Oxford Companion to Music, Jacques Champignon de Chambonnières came from a musical stock, his father being harpsichordist to Louis XIII, as he himself became later to Louis XIV, who appointed him Maître d'Hôtel and ennobled him. His harpsichord compositions are important; he is, in fact, is regarded as the farther of the French school of harpsichord composers. He has composed a Sarabande given in Leichte Trios - Easy Trios.
Websites:
CHAMBONNIèRES, JAQUES CHAMPIGNON DE BIOGRAPHY by www.naxos.com.
Classical Composers Database: J.C. de Chambonnières (1602-1672), biography etc.
Books:
[§] Oeuveres Completes by J. Chambonnieres