Jean-François Dandrieu
1682 — 1738
Jean-François Dandrieu, also spelled D’Andrieu was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist.
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Jean-François Dandrieu, born in Paris in 1684, was a celebrated musician and a masterly performer on both the organ and harpsichord, with his compositions considered “not less excellent,” according to A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1875). This same source notes that Dandrieu “resembled the celebrated Couperin both in style and execution.” He served as organist at the churches of Saint-Méry and Saint-Barthélemy, as recorded in Biographie universelle des musiciens (1837) and Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888). His works, “much esteemed among his contemporaries” (Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1888), included three books of pieces for the harpsichord or pianoforte, one book for organ, and a “suite de Noels,” which Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1904) highlights as a collection of “great value” in the French tradition of carol composition. Dandrieu also published sonatas for string instruments in 1705 and, notably, a theoretical work titled Traité de l’accompagnement du clavecin, first appearing in 1719, with subsequent editions in 1727 and 1777, as detailed by Biographie universelle des musiciens (1837) and A History of Pianoforte-Playing and Pianoforte-Literature (1897). He died in Paris in 1740.