Biography of jacques charpentreaux

French composer and organist

Jacques Charpentier (18 October in Paris, France – 15 June in Lézignan-Corbières, France) was a French composer and organist.^[1] He is unrelated to either of two other eminent French musicians with the same surname (Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Gustave Charpentier).

Biography of jacques charpentreaux

Biography

As a child he taught himself to play the piano. From to he worked with Jeanine Rueff, then left for India, acquainting himself with traditional Hindu music in Bombay and Calcutta. Charpentier stayed there for 18 months, a period that would prove decisive for his musical evolution.

Upon returning to France in , he studied composition with Tony Aubin and the philosophy of music with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris. He joined the Jeunesses musicales de France in , then was named principal inspector of music in and general inspector of music in at the Secrétariat d’État à la Culture.

In the organ of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in P