François d'Agincourt

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François d'Agincourt
An 1839 painting of The Quay de Paris in Rouen. The Rouen Cathedral, where d'Agincourt worked for 52 years, is visible in the background
Background information
Born1684
Rouen, France
Died(1758-04-30)April 30, 1758

François d'Agincourt (also d'Agincour, Dagincourt, Dagincour) (1684 – 30 April 1758) was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedral and of three smaller churches. Highly regarded during his lifetime, d'Agincourt was one of the organists of the royal chapel. The single surviving book of harpsichord music by him contains masterful pieces inspired by François Couperin; also extant are some 40 organ works that survive in manuscript copies.

Biography

D'Agincourt was born in

Abbey of Saint-Ouen (he would hold both of these until his death as well), and at St. Jean, all in Rouen. By 1714 he was sufficiently well-known and respected to be appointed one of the four organists of the royal chapel. Jacques Duphly
studied with d'Agincourt about 1730–31, but his surviving works do not show any considerable influence of his teacher's style.

D'Agincourt only published a single collection of his music, 1er livre de clavecin (Paris, 1733). It contains 43 pieces for harpsichord, clearly influenced by

style galant. The pieces are organized according to mode, as is usual in French organ music, but for unknown reasons d'Agincourt omits the third mode altogether. Suites in the first three modes (i.e., 1, 2, and 4) are less developed than the remaining ones. Apart from keyboard pieces, only three songs for soloist and basso continuo
are known, published in the anthology Recueil d'airs sérieux et à boire in 1713 and 1716.

A portrait of one Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil is frequently misidentified as a portrait of d'Agincourt.

See also

References

  • ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5
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External links

Audio files

"Suite du 2e ton" (organ)

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