Marin Marais (1656-1728), the subject of the popular 1991 film Tous les matins du monde, is best known today for his music for gamba, but he was prolific in a variety of genres and wrote some of the most important French operas between Lully and Rameau. Because of its dramatic weakness, Sémélé (1709) was not among his most successful works, but ...
The revival of Prosperpine, Lully's 1680 collaboration with his longtime librettist Philippe Quinault, by Hervé Niquet and his ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, reveals that while the opera may not have the most compelling dramatic impact, it has an abundance of expressive, elegant, richly varied music, written with inspiration that never flags over ...
Mozart died while composing his Requiem mass, which was commissioned anonymously by a nobleman who wished to pass the work off as his own. The composer's cash-strapped widow Constanze put pressure on several of the composer's associates to finish it up -- and that's where the musicological mystery tour begins. About half the work was finished or ...
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