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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2007-08 Season > Concerts > Apothéoses françaisesThursday February 7, 2008, 8:00 pm Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours400, rue Saint-Paul Est [métro Champ-de-Mars], Vieux-Montréal, Québec Sunday February 10, 2008, 3:00 pm Centre culturel Henri-Lemieux7644, rue Édouard, LaSalle, Québec Trios by Marin Marais, and the Apothéoses (of Lully and of Corelli) by François Couperin. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV and in the Regency period, composers wanted to reconcile, both in instrumental and in vocal music, the competing French and Italian schools, and thus end squabbles they considered sterile and, as Couperin put it, “make music perfect.” Couperin paid homage to the two figureheads, the muses of these two schools, by composing an Apothéose de Lully and an Apothéose de Corelli. These long and magnificent suites for trios, each provided with a dramatic program, are like the two parts of a major esthetic manifesto. But, despite their purpose, today they seem to us to be of purely French inspiration… |