François Cappus
François Cappus (16?? – Dijon, November 1716) was a French composer.
Early life
François Cappus was the son of legal counselor, Maitre Blaise Cappus, Bailiff for Parlement at Aix en Provence. He married Anne Hervelin (16?? - Dijon, March 1692). They were buried together in Saint-Etienne church of Dijon. The couple had three sons, among them the composer Jean Cappus, and three daughters.
Career
Shortly after his death, Cappus was referred to as a ‘good organist who had a healthy appetite, he died at a ripe old age’. He was also a singer at Dijon Cathedral, and was appointed to an official post in 1683 to ‘sing at all the important events’.[1]
Works
A dozen of his vocal compositions have survived, sometimes erroneously attributed to his son Jean Cappus.
1693
- Air for 1 singer and continuo[2]
- Printemps, gardez-vous bien.
1694
Six airs for 1 singer and continuo[3]
- Vous estes insensible au tourment,
- Je meurs (bis) tous les jours,
- Quand, pressé par l'excès,
- Amour, avant que ma constance,
- Taisez-vous (bis) tendres mouvements,
- Que ces vastes forests solitaires.
- Two airs[4]
- Que l'amour est charmant, for three voices,
- Quand le feu fait sentir, for one singer with a recitative for bass “air à boire”.
1699
1700
References
- ↑ Archives de la Côte d’Or : G 1536, Fabrique, comptes 1676-1699
- ↑ XXXVI ‘livre d'airs de différents autheurs à deux et trois parties’, Paris, Chr. Ballard, 1693. 1 vol. in 8°, 76 p. RISM Recueils imprimés XVIe – XVIIe S – 16932, p.74 (erroneously attributed to ‘J.B. Cappus’)
- ↑ XXXVII ‘livre d'airs de différents autheurs à deux et trois parties’, Paris, C. Ballard, 1694. 1 vol. in 8°, 77 p RISM 16942, p.43, p.46, p.48, p.51, p.54, p.56
- ↑ ‘XX. recueil de chansonnettes de différents autheurs à deux et trois parties’, Paris, C. Ballard, 1694. RISM 16943, p.60, p.64
- ↑ ‘Recueil d'Airs sérieux et a boire de differents auteurs’, for the year 1699, Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1699. RISM 16992, [93, p.189], [95, p.192], [108, p.210], [124, p.240]
- ↑ Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS RES 2355 ‘Pièces de musique et airs’ (Houdard de la Motte, Antoine), 77 oblongs folios, 185 x 250 mm), second page numbered 34, only the melody, identical to the ‘première du recueil’ of 1699
- ↑ (‘La Musique est de la composition du sieur Cappus. Le Sieur Hervelin fils a réglé les pas de danse’] (The music is by le Sieur Capus, Le Sieur Hervelin the younger is the choreographer) Dijon, Collège de la Compagnie de Jésus, imprimeur-libraire : Jean Ressaye [1700]
- ↑ ("Cappus"), in ‘Recueil d'Airs sérieux et a boire de differents auteurs, pour l'année’ 1700, In-fol. obl., 242 [292] p., Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1700 RISM 17002, [8, p.18], [19, p.38], p.178,
Source
- Dunford, Jonathan, and Beuvard Yvan. (2017), "Jean (-Baptiste) Cappus – the forgotten violist: an inventory of his life and works", The Viola da Gamba Society Journal, vol. 11, pp. 46–64, ISSN 2513-9029