Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

Jean-Henri d’Anglebert (baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day. Life D’Anglebert’s father Claude Henry known as Anglebert was an affluent shoemaker in Bar-le-Duc, Duchy of Bar. Nothing is known about the composer’s early years and musical education. It is not clear when he immigrated to France. Since he at one time composed a tombeau for Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, it is possible that Chambonnières was his teacher—or at any rate a friend for whom D’Anglebert had much respect. The earliest surviving manuscript with D’Anglebert’s music dates from 1650–1659. It also contains music by Louis Couperin and Chambonnières, and possibly originated in their immediate circle; thus already by the mid-1650s D’Anglebert must have been closely associated with the most prominent French harpsichordists of the time. The earliest reference to D’Anglebert survives in his marriage contract from 11 October 1659. D’Anglebert married Magdelaine Champagne, sister-in-law of the organist François Roberday. In the contract, he is described as bourgeois de Paris, suggesting that by 1659 he was alr