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Dancing with the Sun King | Pan Classics PC10410

Dancing with the Sun King

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Label: Pan Classics

Cat No: PC10410

Barcode: 7619990104105

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 18th October 2019

Contents

About

Louis XIV (1638-1715) was the personal embodiment of France and he loved to dance. The king himself was a fine dancer and had many opportunities to demonstrate his skill at the multiple dance balls given at Versailles. Michel Pignolet de Montéclair’s Sérénade en Concerts is a collection of dances probably written for one such occasion. The collection is exceptional because it contains all the music that was performed in one evening, divided into three parts: airs de fanfares, airs tendres, and airs champêtres. When Jean-Féry Rebel, one of the violin players of the Vingt-quatre violons, wrote Les caractères de la danse, he launched a new fashion: the piece was written for a solo female dancer who performed a rapid succession of different dances, completely changing character every few bars. The piece achieved great popularity.

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