Musiques de Cour et d’Opera pour Louis XIV
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Label: Alpha
Cat No: ALPHA955
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 27th August 2013
Contents
Works
Le Carnaval de VeniseTristes deserts, sombre retraite, H469
Pieces de clavecin II
Phaeton, LWV61
Works
Le Carnaval de VeniseTristes deserts, sombre retraite, H469
Pieces de clavecin II
Phaeton, LWV61
About
The divertissements of the French court, renowned throughout Europe, were at their height during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715). Earlier genres, especially the air de cour and the air de ballet, were transformed in the tragédie lyrique, introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Within a few decades, the combined talents of Molière and Lully, then Molière and Charpentier, produced the comédie-ballet (a fine example is Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the ‘Turkish March’ from which has remained famous to this day), while the brilliant duo formed by Quinault and Lully worked on tragédies lyriques.
These genres were to leave their mark on French music for the next hundred years and influence European music as well.
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