CAMBERT, ROBERT (1628-1677), French musician, was born in Paris in 1628 and is remembered as one of the first corn posers of opera in France, at first in conjunction with the Abbe Pierre Perrin and afterwards on his own account. In 1669 Perrin received a patent for the founding of the A cademie Nationale de musique, the germ of the Grand Opera, and Cambert had a share in the administration until both he and Perrin were discarded in the interests of Lulli. Displeased at his subsequent neglect, and jealous of the favour shown to Lulli, who was musical superin tendent to the king, he went in 1673 to London, where soon after his arrival he is said to have been appointed master of the band to Charles II. He is supposed to have killed himself—according to another account he was murdered—in London in