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Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French organist, composer and author of musical method books.
ette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Corrette served as organist at the Jesuit College in Paris from about 1737 to 1780. It is also known that he traveled to England before 1773. In 1780 he was appointed organist to the Duke of Angouleme and some 15 years later died in Paris at the age of 87.
ette was prolific.
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Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French organist, composer and author of musical method books.
Life
Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Corrette served as organist at the Jesuit College in Paris from about 1737 to 1780. It is also known that he traveled to England before 1773. In 1780 he was appointed organist to the Duke of Angouleme and some 15 years later died in Paris at the age of 87.
Music
Corrette was prolific. He composed ballets and divertissements for the stage, including and He composed many concertos, notably 25 concertos comiques. Aside from these works and concertos for organ, he also composed sonatas, songs, instrumental chamber works, harpsichord pieces, cantatas and other sacred vocal works.
In its entry to Michel Corrette, The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music comments disparagingly that "most of his music is facile and inconsequential and many of his works use popular tunes.".
"Until now the relatively few works I've managed to hear by 18th-century French organist/pedagogue/author Michel Corrette have made a dull impression," complains the critic John Greene for ClassicsToday.com. "Not only does his music tend to lack originality, but whatever inspiration he does display rarely transcends the 'borrowed' material he primarily relies on.".
His teaching
Aside from playing the organ and composing music, Corrette organized concerts and taught music. He wrote nearly twenty music method books for various instruments -- the violin, cello, bass, flute, recorder, bassoon, harpsichord, harp, mandolin, voice and more -- with titles such as l'Art de se perfectionner sur le violon (The Art of Playing the Violin Perfectly), le Parfait Maître à chanter (The Perfect Mastersinger) and L'école d'Orphée (The School of Orpheus), a violin treatise describing the French and Italian styles. These pedagogical works by Corrette are valuable because they "give lucid insight into contemporary playing techniques."
See also
- French baroque harpsichordists
- French organ school
External links
- Corrette: Tous les bourgeois de Chastres
- Corrette: Noël provençal *, biographical sketch on Here of a Sunday Morning website
- , translation from the French Wikipedia
- (from Maîtres français du clavecin des XVIIme et XVIIIme siècles) From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection
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