The character pieces of his last two books depict portraits, landscapes and little genre scenes in painterly fashion, and are an unsurpassed highpoint of the viol repertory. Only the brother of vincent, a priest, is a higher social background. It is similar to a cello, but it has six strings and it is fretted like a guitar. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. The presentation of the soundtrack attempted to address listeners who hadnt seen the film, as well as offering more information to those who had. He is regarded as one of the great french musicians of the baroque. Marin marais, chamber viola player to the king, and a talented composer is the author of this rich work full of contrasts, which forms the bridge, in the french viola tradition, between the generation of pioneers with saintcolombe at their head and the generation of the last french viola players such as forqueray or caix dhervelois. Transcribing the gamba music of marin marais to the guitar. Pieces en trio edited by johan tufvesson for his sheet music collection. Jeanlouis charbonnier, paul rousseau, mauricio buraglia, pierre trocellier, magali imbert marin marais.
Marin marais 31 may 1656, paris 15 august 1728, paris was a french composer and viol player. Although he composed four operas, he is primarily remembered for his some 600 compositions for various combinations of bass viols. Complete works posted by nabob on june 5, 20 pieces for 1 and 2 viols, book i august 20, 1686, only solo viols, march 1, 1689, first published with associated basso continuo. Bonus disc contains the same works recorded again ten years later. Nov 11, 2003 marin marais was famous because of the french movie. This page was last edited on 3 october 2018, at 14. Marin marais 31 may 1656, paris 15 august 1728, paris was a pupil of jean. Marais intended these pieces to be played on any instruments, but they are in fact idiomatically suited for the bass viol and represent the finest collection of pieces for that instrument.
Marin marais composer 16561728 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. Marin marais 31 may 165615 august 1728 was a violist and violist musician playing the viola da gamba and french composer of the baroque period. With pascal colasse he directed the orchestra of the royal academy of music. Marin marais, french composer who was also a celebrated virtuoso of the viola da gamba. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Introduction one of the most important representatives of the french baroque style,marin marais 16561728 was a virtuoso gamba player fr. Marin maraiss piece, to the absent beloved woman, has the form of an air.
He is regarded as one of the great french musicians of the baroque marais, the son of a poor shoe maker, was educated in a choir school were he was taught to play the viol. All the mornings of the world is a 1991 french film based on the book of the same name by pascal quignard. Baroque dance by marin marais this famous oneminute piece was composed by french viol player marin marais. Sainte colombe, with whom he studied in his youth, is believed. The viol also called viola da gamba, an italian expression indicating that the instrument is meant to rest vertically on ones leg is an old instrument that was primarily used during the renaissance and baroque periods. In his own time he was accounted the principal virtuoso of the day on the instrument for which he wrote a number of compositions. Marin marais bio, albums, pictures naxos classical music. This famous oneminute piece was composed by french viol player marin marais.
This item is sold as digital sheet music view an example. Marin marais was famous because of the french movie. Marin marais possesses the grace, elegance and wit so appealing in the gout francais of the eighteenth century. In fact, marais was a the legend of french viole, especial we could get his value from this cd.
Canzoni a cinque viole da gamba e basso continuo, op. Introduction one of the most important representatives of the french baroque style, marin marais 16561728 was a virtuoso gamba player fr. He studied viola da gamba and from 1676 played in the french royal orchestra. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Marin marais 1656 1728 marin marais, player of the viola da gamba and pupil of saintecolombe, has won much wider modern fame through the cinema he and his music were strongly featured in the 1991 film tous les matins du monde. In 1676 he was hired as a musician to the royal court of versailles and was moderately successful there. Marin marais was born in paris may 31, 1656 in a modest family. Marin marais simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
He studied composition with jeanbaptiste lully, often conducting his. Score, score only basstreble clef in basso, basso, 2. Marin marais 16561728 biography, wikipedia biography, hoasm. These works were in the french tradition of collections of various pieces, rather than the italian concertos and sonatas. Marais, the son of a poor shoe maker, was educated in a choir school were he was taught to play the viol. Les voix humaines 2008 flac tracks 24bit48 khz time 72. Marais was the preeminent bass viol player in turnoftheseventeenth century france. Marin marais, baptized march 31, 1656, parisdied aug. Marin marais, player of the viola da gamba and pupil of saintecolombe, has won much wider modern fame through the cinema he and his music were strongly featured in the 1991 film tous les matins du monde. Pieces for viol from the five books 1686 1701 1711 1717 1725 by ton koopman, hopkinson smith, christophe coin, anne gallet, jordi savall, marin marais, jordi savall, jordi savall from amazons classical music store. Le parnasse francois is an invaluable source of information concerning poets and musicians of this period. Booklet a selection of brilliant characterpieces by marin marais. Transcribing the gamba music of marin marais to the guitar 1. He published several books of viol music, a genre in.