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Robert Cambert,  (b. c. 1627 or 1628, Paris, France—d. 1677, London, Eng.), the first French composer of opera, though the dramatic sense of the word cannot be applied to any of his works.

Cambert was a pupil of the harpsichord composer Jacques Chambonnières and in 1662 became superintendent of music to the dowager queen, Anne of Austria. In 1659 he collaborated with the poet Pierre Perrin in his first stage work, the Pastorale d’Issy. In 1669 Louis XIV granted Cambert and Perrin the exclusive right to produce operatic performances in France. They founded the first Royal Academy of Music ... (100 of 166 words)

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