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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 ...
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.
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).
Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" ("Beautiful Night, Oh Night of Love" in French, often referred to as the "Barcarolle") is a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann (1881), Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano , it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written [ 1 ] and described in the Grove Book of Operas as "one ...
The "Duetto buffo di due gatti" (humorous duet for two cats) is a performance piece for two sopranos and piano. Often performed as a comical concert encore, it consists entirely of the repeated word miau ("meow") sung by the singers. It is sometimes performed by a soprano and a tenor, or a soprano and a bass.
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 ...
Dardanus is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a French-language libretto by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère.It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts.
Jean-Joseph Mouret (11 April 1682 in Avignon – 10 December 1738 in Charenton-le-Pont) was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country.