The Pierre Jamet collection

About The Pierre Jamet Collection

The Pierre Jamet collection is a series of historical works for the Harp which have been revised fingered and edited by Marie-Claire Jamet, using 19th century first editions found in her father's papers as musicological sources.

Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (Montmédy, France, August 9, 1789 - Sydney, Australia, January 6, 1856) was a musician and composer. After studying at the Paris Conservatory, Bochsa was appointed harpist to the Imperial orchestra in 1813. He wrote several operas for the Opéra-Comique, but in 1817 Bochsa was forced to flee France to avoid prosecution for counterfeiting, fraud and fogery, although he was convicted in absentia. Settling in London, Bochsa was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy of music and became the Secretary of this organisation in 1821, as well as professor of Harp, teaching notably Elias Parish Alvars. After his forced resignation from this post after his criminal history was discovered, Bochsa became the Musical Director of the Kings Theatre in London. In 1839, Bochsa ran away with the opera singer Anna Rivière-Bishop, the wife of composer Henry Rowley Bishop. The couple toured together in America, Australia and throughout Euopre, finally settling in Naples, Italy after Bochsa was appointed director of the Regio Teatro San Carlo. Bochsa died in Sydney, Australia in 1855, after having performed a single concert of an extended tour. He is buried in Camperdown cemetery in Sydney with an elaborate tombstone commissioned by his mistress.

Théodore LABARRE (Paris, 5 mars 1805 - Paris, 9 mars 1870) won the Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1823 with his cantata Pyrame et Thisbé. Harpist, Conductor at the 'Opéra-comique and Inspecteur-accompagnateur at the Imperial Chapel in 1852, professeur of harpe at the Paris Conservatory in 1867, Labarre composed operas, ballets, many works for the harp, a large quantity of popular songs and a complete harp method published in Paris in 1844.

François-Joseph Naderman (Paris, August 5, 1781 - Paris, April 2, 1835) was a classical harpist, son of the harp maker Jean Henri Naderman. A student of Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, Naderman became a famous musician after the French revolution, throughout the Consulat, the First Empire and through the Restoration. In 1804, he directed a concert at the Invalides in honor of Napoléon which included 12 harps. After the Restoration, he became the harpist of the Royal Chapel and in 1825 the harp professor at the Paris Conservatory, where one of his most notable students was Dieudonné-Félix Godefroid.