Musicians - Jean-Joseph Mondonville

Home > Listing Index > Musicians > Jean-Joseph Mondonville

	Musicians - Jean-Joseph Mondonville

Jean-Joseph Mondonville, also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French composer and violinist who was born in Narbonne on December 25 (Christmas Day), 1711 and died at Belleville, Paris on October 8, 1772.

Biography

A contemporary of the renowned composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, Mondonville came to Paris in 1738, where he was engaged as a violinist by the Concert Spirituel. Between 1734 and 1755 he composed 17 grands motets, of which only 9 have survived. The motet Venite exultemus domino, published in 1740, won him the post of Maître de musique de la Chapelle (Master of Music of the Chapel). In 1734 he was the first violinist at the "concerts de Lille."

The music of Mondonville is characterized by its inventiveness and expressiveness as, for example, in the formal slowness of the Dominus regnavit, the impetuousity of the Elevaverunt flumina, the lyricism of the Gloria patri and the storminess of the Jordanis conversus est retrorsum.

Thanks to his mastery of both orchestral and vocal music, Mondonville brought to the grand motet — the dominant genre of music in the repertory of the Chapelle royale (Royal Chapel) until the Revolution — color and a dramatic quality hitherto unknown, which gave his works a place in the annals of Baroque music.

Some Works

Sonates pour violon op.1
Sonates en trio op.2
Pièces de clavecin en sonates op.3
Le préface de son op.4, contient les premières sources écrites du jeu d'harmoniques, "Les sons harmoniques (Paris und Lille, 1738)
Pièces de Clavecin acec voix ou violon op.5 (1748)
Operas
* Le carnaval du Parnasse (Paris, 1749)
* Titon et I'Aurore (Paris, 1753)
* Daphnis et Alcimadure (1754)
* Thésée(1765)
Grand Motets
* Jubilate Deo (1734)
* Venite exultemus (1743)
* Nisi Dominus (1743)

Source

This article is based on a translation of an article on Mondonville in the French Wikipedia

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Jean-Joseph Mondonville ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Jean-Joseph Mondonville; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay