La Guitare de Louis XIV

Bartolotti, Angelo Michele, Boësset, Antoine, Briceño, Luis de, Corbetta, Francesco, Foscarini, Giovanni Paolo, Lully, Jean-Baptiste, Moulinié, Étienne, różni kompozytorzy, Sanz, Gaspar, Visée, Robert de

Angioloni, Marco, Aymonino, Lili, Masson, Léa

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In addition to his reputation as a dancer, the Sun King was also a musician. Under the enlightened influence of his mother, Anne of Austria, the young Louis XIV learned to play the lute and then the guitar. Once relegated to commoners, this instrument became a symbol of royal refinement. Beyond simple entertainment, this musical craze served a political purpose: to seduce the court and the people, and to weave harmony between French, Italian and Spanish cultures. Like a new King David, monarch-musician par excellence, Louis XIV crafted the image of an Apollonian sovereign, master of the arts as much as of power. Together with exceptional musicians, Léa Masson reveals this forgotten facet of the guitarist king!

Works:

•Angelo Michele Bartolotti: Prelude; Suite d-moll
•Antoine Boesset: Recit de Mnemosyne "Quelles beautes, o mortels"
•Luis de Briceno: Cancion a la Reyna de Francia
•Francesco Corbetta: Chaconne C-Du
•Francesco Corbetta: Folias
•Giovanni Paolo Foscarini: Pavaniglia con parti variate
•Charles Hurel: Prelude & Chaconne pour Mlle de la Balme
•Jean-Baptiste Lully: Air de Mnemosyne & Canaries aus Ballet des muses
•Jean-Baptiste Lully: Overture & Recit d'Iris aus La Grotte de Versailles
•Jean-Baptiste Lully: Air des Espagnols, Bel tempo che vola, Chaconne des Harlequines & Sarabande aus Les Bourgeois Gentilhomme
•Etienne Moulinie: Espagnol, je te supplie
•Etienne Moulinie: L'auzel ques sul bouyssou
•Etienne Moulinie: Quando borda el campo verde
•Etienne Moulinie: Seguir piu non voglia
•Gabriel de Rochechouart: Se voi luci amate
•Gaspar Sanz: Clarines y Trompetas
•Robert de Visee: Tombeau de Francisque Corbet

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Château de Versailles Spectacles

1.10.2025

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