Louis Antoine Lefebvre
Louis Antoine Lefebvre (b Peronne,c1700; d La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, July 20, 1763) was a French composer and organist during the late Baroque and early Classical periods.
He was an organist at the royal church of St Louis-en-l’Isle (Paris) and from about 1756 at Blancs-Manteaux. He composed almost exclusively vocal music, mainly motets, airs, and cantatilles, through which he seems to have made a considerable name in Paris, for when reporting the publication of his third cantatille, L’absence, the Mercure de France (June 1747, p.137) commented on his growing reputation.Tunley, David. "Lefebvre Lefebure, Lefevre, Louis Antoine." Grove Music Online. 2001; Accessed 4 Dec. 2022.
Life and Career
Lefebvre was born in Péronne, Picardy, around the beginning of the 17th century. He composed almost exclusively vocal music, mainly motets, airs and cantatilles, through which ,he seems to have made a considrable name in Paris, for when reporting the publication of his third cantatille, L’absence, the Mercure de France (June 1747, p.137) commented on his growing reputation. Lefebvre wrote 23 such works and a cantata Atalante et Hippomène (1759) in which, as in some of the cantatilles written towards the end of his life, the Rococo characteristics of the form give way to those of the nascent Classical style, not only in the phrase structure of the melodic lines but also in the instrumental writing of the accompaniments. His later cantatilles thus mark a new trend in French vocal chamber music; indeed the publisher Le Clerc contracted him to provide new accompaniments to some 60 cantatilles by Louis Lemaire, but he died before carrying this out. He also composed some sacred music, his motets being performed fairly regularly at the Concert Spirituel for a period from 1749 onwards. Tunley, David. "Lefebvre, Louis Antoine." Grove Music Online. 2001; Accessed 4 Dec.
Louis Antoine Lefebvre was appointed organist of the church of Saint-Louis-en-l'Èle, "probably replacing Pierre Jacquet, who died in 1739"1 . He held the same position at the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs church - Coats from 1753 to 1756.
From 1749 onwards, he played his works successfully in spiritual concerts and at the Paris Salon. He also composed a hymn, now lost.
Vocal Music
Atalante et Hippomene: 2 voices-instruments • (1759) • Cantates : 2 voix et plus avec orchestre Cantatilles: voice-instruments • Cantates : voix-orchestre Corillis: voice-orchestra • Cantates : voix-orchestre Airs • Mélodies isolées Duos • Oeuvres vocales isolées : 2 voix et plus Amour Justifie (L'): 2 voices-instruments • (1761) • Oeuvres vocales isolées : 2 voix et plus avec orchestre Reveil de Flore (Le): 3 voices-instruments • Oeuvres vocales isolées : 2 voix et plus avec orchestre Ariettes: voice-flute-basso continuo • Recueil de mélodies : voix-instruments
Sacred music
Te Deum • perdu • Te Deum
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