The New Grove French Baroque Masters

The New Grove French Baroque Masters
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 039330356X
ISBN-13 : 9780393303568
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Book Synopsis The New Grove French Baroque Masters by : James Anthony

Download or read book The New Grove French Baroque Masters written by James Anthony and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Battista Lulli, a young Florentine who settled in Paris, intrigued his way into all the major musical appointments at the court of Louis XIV and--as Jean-Baptiste Lully--created the essentials of what we recognize as French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. No one dared to rival Lully as a composer of operas or ballet. But in the chapels, the two most gifted French choral composers of the age, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel-Richard de Lalande, brought French sacred music to a new peak of excellence. The leading instrumental composer around Louis XIV's court was Francois Couperin-le-Grand, master of the keyboard miniature. All these traditions were drawn together in the next generation by Jean-Philippe Rameau, theorist, 'philosophe,' and supreme master of the lyric tragedy. Book jacket.


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