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Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris
Paris

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 – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and viol
Viol

The viol is any one of a family of bow , fretted, stringed instruments musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance music and Baroque music periods....
 player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste de Lully , was French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French citizenship in 1661....
, often conducting his opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was a France composer and viol.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnaise or Burgundian petty nobility; and also the selfsame 'Jean de Sainte-Colombe' noted as the father of 'Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils....
 for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles
Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal ch?teau in Versailles, the ?le-de-France region of France. In French language, it is known as the Ch?teau de Versailles....
. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725.

He was a master of the basse de viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument.






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Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and viol
Viol

The viol is any one of a family of bow , fretted, stringed instruments musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance music and Baroque music periods....
 player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste de Lully , was French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French citizenship in 1661....
, often conducting his opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was a France composer and viol.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnaise or Burgundian petty nobility; and also the selfsame 'Jean de Sainte-Colombe' noted as the father of 'Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils....
 for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles
Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal ch?teau in Versailles, the ?le-de-France region of France. In French language, it is known as the Ch?teau de Versailles....
. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725.

He was a master of the basse de viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument. He wrote five books of Pièces de viole (1686-1725) for the instrument, generally suites with basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" (Hubert Le Blanc
Hubert Le Blanc

Hubert Le Blanc was a French viol player, doctor of law and abb?. Strongly regretting that viol playing was falling out of fashion, he wrote the treatise D?fense de la basse de viole contre les enterprises du violon et les pr?tentions du violoncel, which was published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier in 1740....
, 1740). His other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s (1693-1709), Alcyone
Alcyone (opera)

Alcyone is an opera by the France composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a trag?die en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses....
 (1706) being noted for its tempest scene.

Titon du Tillet included Marais in Le Parnasse françois, making the following comments on two of his pieces:

As with Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais' personal life is known after he reached adulthood. Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine d'Amicourt, on September 21, 1676. They had 19 children together.

Facsimiles of all five books of Marais' Pièces de viole are published by Éditions J.M. Fuzeau. A complete critical edition of his instrumental works in seven volumes, edited by John Hsu, is published by Broude Brothers.

Works


Instrumental music

  • Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book I (20 August 1686, only solo viols, 1 March 1689 first published with associated basso continuo)
  • Pieces en trio pour les flutes, violon, et dessus de viole (published on 20 December 1692, dedicated to Marie-Anne Roland)
  • Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book II (1701)
  • Pieces de violes, Book III (1711)
  • Pieces for 1 and 3 viols, Book IV (1717)
  • La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie (1723, includes La Gamma en forme d'un petit Opera, Sonata a la Maresienne, Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
    Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

    Sonnerie de Ste-Genevi?ve du Mont-de-Paris, "The Bells of St. Genevieve" in English, is a work by Marin Marais written in 1723 for viol, violin and harpsichord with Figured bass....
    )
  • Pieces de violes, Book V (1725)
  • 145 Pieces for viol (c. 1680), about 100 pieces were published in Books I - III
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (lost)
  • Concerto for viol and orchestra (lost)
  • 32 Variations on "Les folies d'Espagna" theme for viol and basso continuo


Operas

  • Idylle dramatique of 1686 (music lost)
  • Alcide ou Triomphe d'Hercule (1693, in collaboration with Louis Lully)
  • Ariane et Bacchus (1696)
  • Alcyone
    Alcyone (opera)

    Alcyone is an opera by the France composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a trag?die en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses....
     (premiered on 18 February 1706)
  • Sémélé
    Semele

    File:Gustave Moreau 004.jpgIn Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia , was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths....
     (1709)
  • Pantomime des pages (with Louis Lully, music lost)


Sacred works

  • Te Deum (1701) for the recovery of the Dauphnis (lost)
  • Motet Domine salvum fac regem (1701) for the recovery of the Dauphnis (lost)


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