Music at Versailles: entertainment at the court of Louis XIV, the “Sun-King“ (1680-1700)
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0:10 Prelude, Te Deum (Marc-Antoine Carpentier)
1:30 Prelude, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Jean-Baptiste Lully)
4:12 Prelude, Cadmus et Hermione (Jean-Baptiste Lully)
6:45 Air pour les arts, Carnaval de Venise (André Campra)
9:33 La venetienne, Carnaval de Venise (André Campra)
11:05 Marche des Candiots (Michael Richard Delalande)
PROGRAM NOTES
The reign of King Louis XIV became a second Renaissance in pre-modern France a century after the glory days of François I. Louis’ mythologized image as the Sun-King raised up the institution of the French monarchy to almost divine status. He is often represented in grandiose form as a Greco-Roman god with superhuman powers. Louis symbolized for the nation-state of France both the grandeur and the excesses of a nobility classes that 2 generations later would be crushed in a bloody revolution by the rising middle class. Nevertheless, his kingdom was a realm of elegance, dignity and gentil
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