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Born in Turin, Guignon was the son of a merchant from this city and a disciple of Giovanni Battista Somis.He gave his first performance in Paris in 1725. He became a musician in the chapel of the Prince of Savoie-Carignan in 1730, a position he retained for about 20 years.
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for ...
The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the sound of the instrument of the same name (a type of musette). It is of slow or moderate tempo, sometimes in simple triple meter but more often in compound duple meter.
Lully's Armide at the Palais-Royal Opera House in 1761, watercolor by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Armide is an opera in five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully.The libretto by Philippe Quinault is based on Torquato Tasso's poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).
12 Duets for Two Horns in C, K. 487; Johann Baptist Georg Neruda. Concert for Horn and Strings; Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle Fantasy for Horn and Piano; Giovanni Paisiello. Andante (écrit pour la fête de I´Impératrice) Franz Xaver Pokorny. Concerto No. 1 in D; Concerto No. 2 in D; Concerto No. 3 in D; Concerto in E major for horn, strings ...
Title page of the scores for Louis Lully's Orphée and Henri Desmarets' Circé, published by Philidor in 1703. Henri Desmarets [1] (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.
Atys is a tragédie en musique, an early form of French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Fasti.It was premiered for the royal court on 10 January 1676 [1] by Lully's Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Pages in category "French musical duos" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Air (French band)