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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)

Composer of the Week: Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729): Episode 2: Return to Paris

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Episode 2: Return to Paris

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)

Return to Paris

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729), Return to Paris

What happened after Elisabeth Jacquet left the court in Versailles and returned to Paris.

What happened after Elisabeth Jacquet left the royal court in Versailles and returned to Paris. She married before composing a sung balled and her first set of suites.

As part of Radio 3's celebration of female composers marking International Women's Day, this week Donald Macleod explores with Mary Cyr, the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music.

1684 was the year that Elisabeth Jacquet left the royal court in Versailles, and returned to Paris. She married Marin de La Guerre who was an organist at the Jesuit church of Saint Louis. The following year, at the age of only twenty, she composed a sung ballet, now lost, to be performed at court. A few years later in 1687, aged only twenty-two, she published her first set of Suites for Harpsichord, including the Suite No 4 in F major, which she dedicated to King Louis XIV.

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Donald Macleod and Mary Cyr explore the life and work of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

Donald Macleod and musicologist Mary Cyr explore the life and work of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, who has been hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music

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