1656–1728, French Marin Marais, who was born in Paris, was both a composer and a player of the viola da gamba. He spent his life in Paris or Versailles, where he was one of many musicians employed by King Louis XIV. Marais became a member of the Académie Royale de Musique and co-directed its orchestra with Pascal ...
(Ma-ran’ Ma-ra’) 1656–1728 French composer and viol player Marais was a pupil of Sainte-Colombe (1691– 1701). He was associated with the Académie Royale de Musique and the French court for most of his life. Marais’ idiomatic and expressive viol playing won him European renown. Between 1686 and 1725 he published five collections of pièces de violes; the first was dedicated to Lully ...
to return. Introduction | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera Major Operas | Alceste, ou le triomphe d’Alcide by Jean-Baptiste Lully | Early & Middle Baroque Personalities | Marin Marais | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...
, Lully saw his achievements recognized during his lifetime and they were acknowledged after his death too. Among the composers who wrote music in his memory are François Couperin (1668–1733), Marais, Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747) and d’Anglebert, who arranged several of the overtures, dances and airs from his operas for solo harpsichord. Recommended Recording: Cadmus et Hermione (DVD), soloists ...
Lully’s monopolistic practices. When Lully died in 1687, composers were suddenly free to write operas and many did, most famously Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729) and Marin Marais (1656–1728); others included Pascal Collasse (1649–1709) André Campra (1660–1744) and André Cardinal Destouches (1672–1749). Charpentier was quick off the mark with his religious drama David et Jonathas. It was followed ...
(Me-shel’ Re’-share de La-län-de) 1657–1726 French composer During the mid-1660s Lalande, along with Marais, was a member of the choir at St Germain-l’Auxerrois in Paris and later, as an organist, he was the mentor of Couperin. In 1683 he was appointed one of four sous-maîtres of the Chapelle Royale, gradually acquiring all the other major musical positions ...
violin technique. Recommended Recording: Concerti grossi, Sinfonia in F minor, Europa Galante (sol & dir) Fabio Biondi (Opus 111) Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Marin Marais | Late Baroque | Classical ...
Perhaps the most important developments in music around the year 1600 were the emergence of the basso continuo and the fashion for virtuosity. The presence of an independent bass line moved composition away from the flowing polyphony of the Renaissance, in which all voices played an equal role in the texture, leaving the upper voices free to indulge in ...
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