Louis-Claude Daquin Biography - A Very Quick Guide
Artist:
Louis-Claude Daquin
Born:
1694 , Paris
Died:
1772, Paris
French composer, organist and harpsichordist Louis-Claude Daquin was born in 1694 in Paris. Daquin was a musical child prodigy. He performed for the court of Louis XIV at the age of six. At the age of 12, he became organist at the Sainte-Chapelle, and in the following year took a similar post at the Church of Petit Saint Antoine. In 1722 he married Denise-Thérèse Quirot.
Daquin’s surviving works consist mainly of harpsichord suites and sacred vocal music. His most famous piece, “Le Coucou,” from the Premier livre de pièces de clavecin (1735), remains a popular showcase of 18th-century keyboard style with its characteristic repeated-note imitation of a cuckoo call. He died in 1772.
Daquin’s surviving works consist mainly of harpsichord suites and sacred vocal music. His most famous piece, “Le Coucou,” from the Premier livre de pièces de clavecin (1735), remains a popular showcase of 18th-century keyboard style with its characteristic repeated-note imitation of a cuckoo call. He died in 1772.
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