Name Pierre Fevrier Died 1760, Paris, France | Role Composer | |
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Similar People Claude Balbastre, Joseph‑Nicolas‑Pancrace Royer, Louis Marchand, Jacques Duphly | ||
Pierre Fevrier (1696–1760) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
Born at Abbeville on 21 March 1696, he arrived in Paris in 1720 and served as titular organist of two churches on Saint-Honore street: the Jacobins' church (destroyed at the Revolution) and Saint-Roch (still standing). Claude-Benigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was among his pupils and eventually succeeded Fevrier at Saint-Roch. Pierre Fevrier died in Paris on 5 November 1760.
Two volumes of his harpsichord pieces are extant. The first one is dated 1734 and contains five suites:
The second volume, composed after 1734 and before 1737, was discovered in the late 1990s in a private collection in Belgium (Arenberg). It contains two harpsichord suites that follow a similar pattern, mixing dances and descriptive pieces de caractere in the typical late Baroque French tradition: