Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688) was a French

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

of the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

era. She was the daughter of

Pierre Chabanceau de La Barre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1592-1656), organist of the '' chapelle royale'' at Notre-Dame, ''

sieur Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...

'' of La Barre, Jacques-Gabriel Prod’homme ''Ecrits de musiciens: (XVe-XVIIIe siècles)'' 1985 "LES CHABANCEAU DE LA BARRE (xvne siècle; Il yeut au dix-huitième siècle, plusieurs musiciens du nom de La Barre. Pierre de Chabanceau, fils de Pierre Chabanceau, sieur de La Barre, organiste de Notre-Dame," and sister of

Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre (21 May 1633, in Paris – 6 May 1678, in Paris) was a French composer, notably of the ''air de cour.''Catherine Gordon-Seifert ''Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs'' He was son of Pi ...

(1633-1678), composers of airs. Anne made her debut in opera in 1647 in ''Orfeo'' by

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

. Between 1652 and 1654, she travelled widely in Northern Europe, and sang at the court of Queen

Christina of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December ( New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death ...

in Stockholm for some time. She was made ''kammarsångerska'', singer of the royal court in 1653-1654, alongside her brother Joseph (1633–78) who was court singer in 1650-1654. She later appeared at the court of Denmark. Back in France, she sang in several "comédie-ballets" by

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

such as ''Galanterie du Temps'', ''Alcidiane'', ''La Raillerie'', and ''Princesse d'Élide''. She took part in the creation of ''

Ercole amante ''Ercole amante'' (''Hercules in Love'', French: ''Hercule amoureux'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by Francesco Cavalli. Its Italian libretto is by Francesco Buti, based on Sophocles' ''The Trachiniae'' and on the ninth book of Ovid ...

'' by

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverd ...

in 1662, during the composer's stay in France. In 1661, she was named "fille ordinaire de la musique de la Chambre du Roi", meaning roughly a member of the king's private music ensemble (or court soprano), a very prestigious post that she kept until her death. In 1667, she married Antoine Coquerel, and ended her stage career.

References

* ''L'opéra baroque, les chanteurs de Lully'', Jean-Claude Brenac. * Leif Jonsson, Ann-Marie Nilsson, Greger Andersson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Från forntiden till stormaktstidens slut 1720'' ("Music in Sweden. From Antiquity to the end of the Great power era 1720") (In Swedish)

External links

Le magazine de l'opéra baroque (French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:La Barre, Anne Chabanceau De French operatic sopranos Singers from Paris 1628 births 1688 deaths 17th-century French women opera singers Court of Christina, Queen of Sweden