Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier
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Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (28 June 1734 – 6 May 1794) was a celebrated French
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. From 1763, he was a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts de Lyon (now École des Beaux-Arts). Then, from 1783 to 1793, he was organist at the
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. Beauvarlet-Charpentier composed sonatas for keyboard and violin and numerous pieces for organ. He died in
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. His son
Jacques-Marie Jacques-Marie or Jacques Marie may refer to: *Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (1773–1855), French general *Jacques Marie (footballer) (1945–1999), French footballer *Jacques-Marie d'Amboise (1538–1611), French hellenist *Jacques-Marie Beauva ...
(1766–1834) was also an organist and composer.


Discography

* ''Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, œuvres pour orgue''.
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aux grandes orgues historiques de l’Abbatiale Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux. CD I–II. — Paris :
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, 2007.


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Free organ pieces. La ''Victoire de l’Armée d’Italie'' for fortepiano by his son Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier. French classical organists 18th-century French composers 18th-century French male musicians French male composers 1734 births 1794 deaths People from Abbeville 18th-century French keyboardists French male classical organists {{organist-stub