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Jean de Cambefort

French composer

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Source revisionMar 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ450483 ↗
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Jean de Cambefort (c. 1605 – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (recits) for the Ballet de la Nuit, performed in 1653.

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.

Notes

Bibliography

Burden, Michael; Thorp, Jennifer (2009; revised 2010). Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 9781576471432. Product page for the revised edition at Pendragon.

McGowan, Margaret M. (2001).

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q450483. VIAF identifies the subject as 5195836. The Library of Congress control number is n97865586. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1605, 1661, 1653 and 1654.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean de Cambefort” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.