This portrait is part of an 8-part series of portraits of female composers. All having unjustly faded into obscurity. Yet, despite restrictions, they were stars in their time. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was born in Paris in 1665 to a harpsichord teacher and organist of Saint-Louis-en-Isle. Her father taught all his children and presented her, eight years old, at the court of Louis XIV. She ...
This portrait is part of an 8-part series of portraits of female composers. All having unjustly faded into obscurity. Yet, despite restrictions, they were stars in their time. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was born in Paris in 1665 to a harpsichord teacher and organist of Saint-Louis-en-Isle. Her father taught all his children and presented her, eight years old, at the court of Louis XIV. She ...