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Béatrice Massin
Béatrice Massin is a leading specialist in Baroque dance. Her choreographic writing confronts Baroque style with contemporary dance. She's the director of the company ''Fêtes galantes''. The daughter of musicologists Jean and Brigitte Massin, Béatrice Massin began her career with contemporary dance. In particular, she was a performer of shows by American . She met in 1983 and joined the ''Ris and Danceries'' troupe of which she was successively interpreter, assistant, collaborator and choreographer. Then began a long process of appropriation of the baroque language. In 1993, she founded the company ''Fêtes galantes''. Since then, Béatrice Massin has deepened this approach in her creations. (''Songes'', ''Que ma joie demeure'',). She received commissions ('' Le roi danse'', film by Gérard Corbiau) and developed an educational centre within the ''Atelier baroque''. Choreographies * 2012: ''Terpsichore'' (Rebel, Haendel) with the ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Dance
Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera. English country dance The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English country dances, such as those in the many editions of John Playford, Playford's ''The Dancing Master''. The descriptions in these various publications give the music, the formation, the number of dancers, and textual descriptions of the figures to be danced in relation to the musical bars, i.e. the floor patterns of the dances. There is only occasional indication of the steps used, presumably because they were well known. However, other sources of the period, such as the writings of the French dancing-masters Raoul Auger Feuillet, Feuillet and Lorin, indicate that steps more complicated than simple walking were used, at least some of the time. English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and Program music, programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form, especially the solo concerto, into a widely accepted and followed idiom. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as Sacred Music, sacred choral works and List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi, more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), The Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the , a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Choreographers
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions by Franz Schubert, vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 ''Lieder'' (art songs in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include "Erlkönig (Schubert), Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria (Schubert), Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet, ''Trout'' Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 (Schubert), Symphony No. 8 in B minor (''Unfinished''); the Symphony No. 9 (Schubert), Symphony No. 9 in C major (''Great''); the String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert), String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (''Death and the Maiden''); the String Quintet (Schubert), String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus (Schubert), Impromptus for solo piano; the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Boësset
Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), Sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his father-in-law Pierre Guédron dominated the court's musical life for the first half of the 17th century under Louis XIII. His son Jean-Baptiste eBoesset, Sieur de Dehault, composed church music. Life Born at Blois and baptised there on 24 February 1587, he was made master of the children within the musical household of the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1613. He rose to be the queen's music master in 1617 and secretary to the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1620, and finally ''surintendant'' of the musical household of the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1623 – in the last of these roles he succeeded Guédron (''surintendant'' under Henry IV and Louis XIII), whose daughter he married in 1613. In 1632 he was ''conseiller'' and ''maître d'hôtel'' ''ordinaire du roi.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Bataille
Gabriel Bataille (between June 1574 and June 1575 – 17 December 1630) was a French musician, lutenist and composer of airs de cour. He should not be confused with his son Gabriel II Bataille. Biography The allusions to Brie in his verse pieces suggest that Gabriel Bataille was a native of this province. He had a brother Louis, a tailor, quoted in an act of 1621 and a sister Catherine, married to Didier Dutour, usher of the accounts and treasures in Paris, and died before 1600. At the time of his marriage with Catherine Carre, on 12 February 1600, he was already a Parisian, but his marriage contract specified that he was then clerk to the parliamentary counselor Germain Regnault; thus he was not yet a professional musician. When in 1608 Pierre I Ballard published the first volumes of his ''Airs de différents autheurs'', he had probably become one: from 1614 he was listed as master of music. From 1617 to his death, he was master of music of the house of Anne of Austria (1601 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Guédron
Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – c. 1620 in Paris), was a French singer and composer. Guédron's ''Est-ce Mars'' (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Sweelinck (keyboard), Scheidt (5 part strings) and Vallet (4 lutes of different sizes). Works *6 books of ''Airs de cour à quatre et cinq parties'' *''Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth'' *1602: ''Ballet sur la Naissance de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme'' *1610: ''Ballet de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme oder Ballet d'Alcine'' *1613: ''Ballet de Madame'' *1614: ''Ballet des Argonautes'' *1615: ''Ballet du Triomphe de Minerve'' *1615: ''Ballet de Monsieur le Prince'' *1617: ''Ballet du Roy ou Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud'' *1618: ''Ballet des Princes'' *1619: ''Ballet du Roy sur L'Adventure de Tancrède en la forest enchantée'' Editions available *There is a large CNRS library edition of ''Air de cour''. *''Garland'' published a facsimile of the original print whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Lambert
Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singer, theorbist, and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans, a brother of king Louis XIII. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher. In 1641, he married singer Gabrielle Dupuis who died suddenly a year later. Their daughter Madeleine (1643–1720) married Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1662. After his marriage, Lambert's career became closely linked to his sister-in-law and famous singer Hilaire Dupuis (1625–1709). In 1651, he appears as a ballet dancer at the court of Louis XIV. Beginning in 1656, his reputation as a composer was established and his compositions were regularly printed by Ballard. They consist mainly of airs on poems of Benserade and Quinault. He was the most prolific composer of airs in the second half of the 17th century. In 1661, he succeeded Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' called The Fairy-Queen, ''The Fairy Queen''. Purcell's musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Music of Italy#Baroque and Classical, Italian and Music of France#Baroque, French elements. Generally considered among the greatest English opera composers, Purcell has been ranked alongside John Dunstaple and William Byrd in the pantheon of English early music. Life and work Early life Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster, in 1659. Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell was a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England. Henry the elder had three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'' ''H.146, Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still used today as a fanfare during television broadcasts of the Eurovision Network and the European Broadcasting Union. Marc-Antoine Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality of his prolific output. He mastered all genres, and his skill in writing sacred vocal music was especially hailed by his contemporaries. He began his career by going to Italy, where he fell under the influence of Giacomo Carissimi as well as other Italian composers, perhaps Domenico Mazzocchi. He would remain marked by the Italian style and become the only one with Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville in France to approach the oratorio. In 1670, he became a master of music (composer and singer) in the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
