Charpentier

American  

[shar-pahn-tyey] / ʃar pɑ̃ˈtyeɪ /

noun

1. Gustave 1860–1956, French composer.

2. Marc Antoine 1634–1704, French composer.

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Charpentier British  

/ ʃarpɑ̃tje /

noun

1. Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)

2. Marc-Antoine. ?1645–1704, French composer, best known for his sacred music, particularly the Te Deum

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Example Sentences

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing a groundbreaking yet simple way to edit DNA, the "blueprint" of living organisms.

From Science Daily

A new Berlin production of Charpentier’s 1693 opera “Medee,” with direction by Peter Sellars and sets by Frank Gehry, offers vital perspective for our times.

From Los Angeles Times

On what would have been Callas’ 100th birthday, Dec. 2, the Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená starred in the last of five performances at the Berlin State Opera of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Médée,” written a century before Cherubini’s opera.

From Los Angeles Times

It was ultimately produced in tandem with Charpentier’s “Médée” in Lyons, France, a few months after the Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times

For example, biochemists Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just eight years after their development of the CRISPR–Cas9 system as a genome-editing tool.

From Scientific American