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Marin Marais

Marin Marais
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Birth
Wednesday, May 31, 1656
Paris
France
Groupes
France
Baroque composers
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Death
Sunday, August 15, 1728
Paris
France
Age: 
72

Composition list

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Opera and lyrical music

Alcide ou le Triomphe d'Hercule • (1693) • Operas
Alcyone • incomplet • (1706) • Operas
Ariane et Bacchus • (1696) • Operas
Semele • (1709) • Operas
Idylle Dramatique sur la Paix • perdu • (1686) • Hymnes - odes - sérénades - élégies : soli-chœur-orchestre

Chamber music

Pieces - Livre 4 -: 3 viols-b.c. • L. 4/ 88-110 • (1725) • Musique de chambre cordes
Gamme (La): cembalo-violin-viol • (1723) • Trios instruments identiques
Pieces en Trio: violin-flute-viol • (1692) • Trios instruments identiques
Pieces - Livre 1 -: 2 viols-b.c. • L. 1b • (1689) • Trios 2 instruments avec B.C.
Pieces (Nouvelles) - Livre 1 -: viol-b.c. • L. 1c • (1689) • Duos instruments différents
Pieces - Livre 1 -: viol-b.c. • L. 1a • (1686) • Duos instruments différents
Pieces - Livre 2 -: viol-b.c. • L. 2 • (1701) • Duos instruments différents
Pieces - Livre 3 -: viol-b.c. • L. 3 • (1711) • Duos instruments différents
Pieces - Livre 4 -: viol-b.c. • L. 4/ 1- 54 • (1717) • Duos instruments différents
Pieces - Livre 5 -: viol-b.c. - 7 suites • L. 5 • (1725) • Duos instruments différents
Suite d'un Gout Etranger: viol-b.c. - 33 pièces • L. 4/ 55- 87 • (1725) • Duos instruments différents

Sacred music

Instrumental music

Pieces: double bass de viol • à identifier • Pièces

Symphonic music

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Results for Marin Marais Marais (not all results may be relevant):

Music: 
  • 5 books of pieces for viol and basso cotinuo (including pieces for 2 and 3 viols) (published in 1686, 1701, 1711, 1717 and 1725)
  • 2 collections of trios:
    • "Pieces en trios pour les flutes, violons et dessus de viole" (1692)
    • "La Gamme et les autres morceaux de symphonie pour le violon, la viole et le clavecin" (1723)
  • 4 operas:
    • Alcide ou Le Triomphe d’Hercule (1693)
    • Ariane et Bacchus (1696)
    • Alcyone (1706)
    • Semele (1709)
Biography: 

He was a pupil of Lully and of the viol player Saint-Colombe. He becomes a musician at the Versailles court in 1676. In 1679 he is appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a function he keeps until 1725. He was very highly regarded as a viol virtuoso and the numerous pieces he wrote for his instument were very much appriciated by the king and his court.

Links: 
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/misc/tlmdm.htm
Submitted by Jean-Paul Giraudet on 2005-12-08 09:00.
Last modified: 
2014-06-05 16:10

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