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ROBERT CAMBERT (1628-1677)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:CAMBERT (1628-1677)  , See also:French operatic composer, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1628 . He was a See also:pupil of Chambonnieres . In 1655, after he had obtained the See also:post of organist at the See also:church of St Honore, he married See also:Marie du Moustier . He was musical See also:superintendent to See also:Queen See also:Anne of See also:Austria, See also:mother of See also:Louis XIV., and for a See also:time held a post with the See also:marquis de Sourdeac . His earlier See also:works, the words of which were furnished by See also:Pierre Perrin, continued to be performed before the See also:court at See also:Vincennes till the See also:death of his See also:patron See also:Cardinal See also:Mazarin . In 1669 Perrin received a patent for the See also:founding of the Acadimie Nationale de musique, the germ of the See also:Grand See also:Opera, and See also:Cambert had a See also:share in the See also:administration until both he and Perrin were discarded in the interests of Lulli . Displeased at his subsequent neglect, and jealous of the favour shown to Lulli, who was musical superintendent to the See also:king, he went in 1673 to See also:London, where soon after his arrival he was appointed See also:master of the See also:band to See also:Charles II . One at least of his operas, Pomone, was performed in London under his direction, but it did not suit the popular See also:taste, and he is supposed to have killed himself in London in 1677 . His other See also:principal operas were See also:Ariadne ou See also:les amours de Bacchus and Les Peines et les plaisirs de l'amour .

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