Marais: -Alcione- Marche pour les Matelots, Air et Tambourin pour les mêmes. Marais: -Alcione- Marche pour les Matelots, Air et Tambourin pour les mêmes / Jordi Savall Marin Marais (1656-1728), maestro …More
Marais: -Alcione- Marche pour les Matelots, Air et Tambourin pour les mêmes.
Marais: -Alcione- Marche pour les Matelots, Air et Tambourin pour les mêmes / Jordi Savall
Marin Marais (1656-1728), maestro francés nacido en París. Es uno de los violagambistas más extraordinarios que se conocen y fue discípulo de Sainte-Colombe. Como tal maestro reputado, se movió en las más altas esferas de la música parisina. Así, estudió con Jean-Baptiste Lully y con él llegó a interpretar música en distintos conciertos. Compuso una gran cantidad de obras, sobre todo óperas y especialmente sus gloriosas suites para viola da gamba. Según el intérprete contemporáneo Hubert Le Blanc, Marais tocaba la viola como un ángel mientras que Forqueray, su otro rival, tocaba como un demonio. Así de competitivo era el ambiente de la época, pero gracias a él hemos conseguido escuchar unas increíbles composiciones.
Una de sus muchas óperas es Alcyone, estrenada en 1706. Estrictamente, es una "tragedia en música" en un prólogo y cinco actos. Como era habitual en la época, entre las arias y los coros solían intercalarse distintos movimientos de danza, que es lo que hoy te propongo escuchar. Vamos a escuchar una marcha, una aria, y un tambourin. Esa sucesión de danzas es también típica de la obra, aunque no tiene por qué presentarse en la obra originalmente así. La música, toda en do menor, es un prodigio por su carácter danzable (obviamente) y por esa típica energía del barroco francés que te hará tomar impulso para seguir en el camino.
La interpretación es del conjunto Le Concert des Nations dirigido por Jordi Savall.
Marin Marais (1656~1728)
《Alcyone》tragédie en musique, 1706
(Acte 3, Scène 3)
- Marche pour les Matelots -
- Air pour les mêmes -
- Air Tambourin pour les mêmes -
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)
Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725.
He was a master of the basse de viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument. He wrote five books of Pièces de viole (1686-1725) for the instrument, generally suites with basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" (Hubert Le Blanc, 1740). His other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four operas (1693-1709), Alcyone (1706) being noted for its tempest scene.
Titon du Tillet included Marais in Le Parnasse françois, making the following comments on two of his pieces:
A piece from his fourth book entitled The Labyrinth, which passes through various keys, strikes various dissonances and notes the uncertainty of a man caught in a labyrinth through serious and then quick passages; he comes out of it happily and finishes with a gracious and natural chaconne. But he surprised musical connoisseurs even more successfully with his pieces called La Gamme [The Scale], which is a piece de symphonie that imperceptibly ascends the steps of the octave; one then descends, thereby going through harmonious songs and melodious tones, the various sounds of music.
As with Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais' personal life is known after he reached adulthood. Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine d'Amicourt, on September 21, 1676. They had 19 children together.
Facsimiles of all five books of Marais' Pièces de viole are published by Éditions J.M. Fuzeau. A complete critical edition of his instrumental works in seven volumes, edited by John Hsu, is published by Broude Brothers. Marais is credited with being one of the earliest composers of program music. His work The Gallbladder Operation, for viola da gamba and harpsichord, includes composer's annotations such as "The patient is bound with silken cords" and "He screameth."
- Alcyone (French Opera) -
Alcyone is an opera by the French composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The opera was first performed at the Académie royale de musique, Paris on 18 February 1706. The score is particularly famous for the storm scene (tempête) in Act Four. The Marche pour les Matelots, also part of this movement, became popular as a dance tune and is the basis of the Christmas carol Masters in this Hall.
Marais: -Alcione- Marche pour les Matelots, Air et Tambourin pour les mêmes / Jordi Savall
Marin Marais (1656-1728), maestro francés nacido en París. Es uno de los violagambistas más extraordinarios que se conocen y fue discípulo de Sainte-Colombe. Como tal maestro reputado, se movió en las más altas esferas de la música parisina. Así, estudió con Jean-Baptiste Lully y con él llegó a interpretar música en distintos conciertos. Compuso una gran cantidad de obras, sobre todo óperas y especialmente sus gloriosas suites para viola da gamba. Según el intérprete contemporáneo Hubert Le Blanc, Marais tocaba la viola como un ángel mientras que Forqueray, su otro rival, tocaba como un demonio. Así de competitivo era el ambiente de la época, pero gracias a él hemos conseguido escuchar unas increíbles composiciones.
Una de sus muchas óperas es Alcyone, estrenada en 1706. Estrictamente, es una "tragedia en música" en un prólogo y cinco actos. Como era habitual en la época, entre las arias y los coros solían intercalarse distintos movimientos de danza, que es lo que hoy te propongo escuchar. Vamos a escuchar una marcha, una aria, y un tambourin. Esa sucesión de danzas es también típica de la obra, aunque no tiene por qué presentarse en la obra originalmente así. La música, toda en do menor, es un prodigio por su carácter danzable (obviamente) y por esa típica energía del barroco francés que te hará tomar impulso para seguir en el camino.
La interpretación es del conjunto Le Concert des Nations dirigido por Jordi Savall.
Marin Marais (1656~1728)
《Alcyone》tragédie en musique, 1706
(Acte 3, Scène 3)
- Marche pour les Matelots -
- Air pour les mêmes -
- Air Tambourin pour les mêmes -
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)
Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725.
He was a master of the basse de viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument. He wrote five books of Pièces de viole (1686-1725) for the instrument, generally suites with basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" (Hubert Le Blanc, 1740). His other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four operas (1693-1709), Alcyone (1706) being noted for its tempest scene.
Titon du Tillet included Marais in Le Parnasse françois, making the following comments on two of his pieces:
A piece from his fourth book entitled The Labyrinth, which passes through various keys, strikes various dissonances and notes the uncertainty of a man caught in a labyrinth through serious and then quick passages; he comes out of it happily and finishes with a gracious and natural chaconne. But he surprised musical connoisseurs even more successfully with his pieces called La Gamme [The Scale], which is a piece de symphonie that imperceptibly ascends the steps of the octave; one then descends, thereby going through harmonious songs and melodious tones, the various sounds of music.
As with Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais' personal life is known after he reached adulthood. Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine d'Amicourt, on September 21, 1676. They had 19 children together.
Facsimiles of all five books of Marais' Pièces de viole are published by Éditions J.M. Fuzeau. A complete critical edition of his instrumental works in seven volumes, edited by John Hsu, is published by Broude Brothers. Marais is credited with being one of the earliest composers of program music. His work The Gallbladder Operation, for viola da gamba and harpsichord, includes composer's annotations such as "The patient is bound with silken cords" and "He screameth."
- Alcyone (French Opera) -
Alcyone is an opera by the French composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The opera was first performed at the Académie royale de musique, Paris on 18 February 1706. The score is particularly famous for the storm scene (tempête) in Act Four. The Marche pour les Matelots, also part of this movement, became popular as a dance tune and is the basis of the Christmas carol Masters in this Hall.