Music nowadays is considered like a necessity in each european country Charles Burney - Musical journey through Italy - 1770
The biography: He was born in Lunèville (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in Lorraine, from Jacques Champion and Charlotte Bruget. Although we have little information about the first period of his training, we know that at the Lorraine Court in that period all the musical activities were directed by the French composer Henry Desmarets. Probably the move of the Champion family was contemporary to the raising of Francesco Stefano of Lorraine to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1737), because Charles-Antoine’s father worked at that Court. And it is also likely that Champion studied with Giuseppe Tartini or at least with someone ...
