• Kapellmeister (/kəˈpɛlmaɪstər/ kə-PEL-my-stər, US also /kɑːˈ-/ kah-, German: [kaˈpɛlˌmaɪstɐ] ), from German Kapelle (chapel) and Meister (master), literally...
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    Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu (The Chapelmaster, or The Unexpected Supper) is an opéra comique in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando...
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    (2009). Dans le cadre du tricentenaire de la naissance de F-X Richter (1709-1789), Maître de chapelle de la cathédrale de Strasbourg, Exposition réalisée par...
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  • served as a master of the children from 1500–1527, was maître de chapelle of René II and Antoine de Lorraine, and musician in the chapel of Louis XII. He...
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  • Caurroy maître de la chapelle du roi Nicolas Morel Estienne Le Roy Eustache Picot Nicolas Formé, sous-maître from 1609 to 1638 Jacques Blondin, maitre de la...
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    Strasbourg, France, in 1783 to work alongside Franz Xaver Richter, the maître de chapelle at the Strasbourg Cathedral. The cathedral was extremely appealing...
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    Flemish composers who served as maître de chapelle including Guillaume Dufay, Robert de Févin, Johannes Lupi, and Jean de Bonmarché. Nicolas Malin and Richard...
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    oratory (chapelle et oratoire)—directed by the master of the Oratory (sous-maître de l'Oratoire)—which celebrated spoken Masses, and the grande chapelle—directed...
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  • Frémart as maître de chapelle at Notre-Dame de Paris then replaced François Cosset, when he took charge in 1643 as sous-maître of the Chapelle royale. After...
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    time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. It was also called the Théâtre-Italien up to about 1793, when it...
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    1829) was a French composer of classical and sacred music as well as maître de chapelle. The son of a vine-grower, destined for the ecclesiastical state by...
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  • Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, 1677) was a French priest and composer. He was maître de chapelle at Lisieux Cathedral, then from 1668 priest at Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire...
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  • his father was an alderman in Arras in 1474. He held the post of maître de chapelle (chorus master) in Cambrai, to the dukes of Savoy, sometime around...
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  • French organist, composer, choir conductor, maître de chapelle and music educator. Born in Rouen, Léon de Saint-Réquier was a disciple of Alexandre Guilmant...
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    Gabriel Fauré (category Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris)
    1865, as a Laureat in organ, piano, harmony and composition, with a Maître de chapelle diploma. On leaving the École Niedermeyer, Fauré was appointed organist...
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  • French composer and maître de chapelle. Said to have studied music under 'the best contrapuntist of his time', he served as maître de musique in Orléans...
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  • at the Imperial chapel, he never officially received the title of maître de chapelle – music director – which was a title given to both Adrien Thibaut...
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  • about twenty, he became master of music (maître de chapelle) at the cathédrale de Rodez, then at Saint-Sernin de Toulouse, succeeding the composer Étienne...
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    teacher and director of the cathedral's choir through his role as maître de chapelle; a post he held intermittently from 1667 until his sudden death in...
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    been the Maître de Chaource. Arnhold also links the two statues of Saint John in the "Chapelle des Annonciades" in Langres with the Maître de Chaource...
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    Félicien David (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
    position in the orchestra of the theatre at Aix. In 1829, he became maître de chapelle at Saint-Sauveur, but realised that to complete his musical education...
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    and a member of the chapel of Emperor Charles V, but whether he was maître de chapelle or merely a singer is still a matter of dispute; the surviving documents...
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  • served as a chorister for the next six years. In 1483, he was made maître de chapelle there. Sometime around this time he became a priest, and he is believed...
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    Yolande de Brossard, Sébastien de Brossard, théoricien et compositeur, encyclopédiste et maître de chapelle, (Paris: Picard, 1987) Yolande de Brossard...
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    César Franck (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    third and last change in organ posts. On 22 January 1858, he became maître de chapelle at the newly consecrated Sainte-Clotilde, where he remained until...
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    Le barbier de Séville (a French adaptation by Castil-Blaze of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Ferdinando Paer's Le maître de chapelle, both more...
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  • at Saint-Quentin, then maître de chapelle at Péronne, Somme. In 1635 he was appointed aumônier with Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu. He succeeded...
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  • Gummarus, Lier, Belgium, (maître de chapelle 1559), then in 1562 back to the Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp) where he was made maître de chant in 1563. His motets...
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  • François-Marie Dieudonné Marc, Baron de Ranse (20 April 1881 – 12 February 1951) was a French pianist, organist, maître de chapelle, choral conductor and composer...
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    Edgar Tinel (category Prix de Rome (Belgium) winners)
    counterpoint and fugue in 1896, and director at the end of 1908. He was made maître de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the Belgian Royal Academy...
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