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Author:

Heyer, John Hajdu, author.

Title:

The lure and legacy of music at Versailles : Louis XIV and the Aix school / John Hajdu Heyer.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxii, 277 pages ; 26 cm

Subject:

Church music--Aix-en-Provence--Aix-en-Provence--History--17th century.
Church music--Aix-en-Provence--Aix-en-Provence--History--18th century.
Music--Aix-en-Provence--Aix-en-Provence--17th century--History and criticism.
Music--Aix-en-Provence--Aix-en-Provence--18th century--History and criticism.
Composers--Aix-en-Provence.--Aix-en-Provence.
Louis--XIV,--King of France,--1638-1715.
Ludwig--Frankreich, König,--1638-1715.
Kirchenmusik.
Musik.
Aix-en-Provence.
Versailles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rendezvous in Provence. The winter of 1660 : Louis XIV and the royal court visit Provence ; A choirboy and his king : the early life of Guillaume Poitevin -- The Aix school : a legacy of Maitres. Guillaume Poitevin : maitre of Saint-Sauveur ; Andre Campra : an extraordinary career ; Jean Gilles : an independent spirit ; The "petits maitres" ; Antoine Blanchard : the eighteenth-century master -- The lure and legacy. The lure of music at Versailles and the Ile-de-France ; Patronage and the provencal networks ; The legacy of the Aix school.

ISBN:

0521519888
9780521519885

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880349837

LCCN:

2014016832

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)