Baroque · France
1656 – 1728
Paris - Paris
Review
Alumni of the enigmatic Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, was the great virtuoso of the viola da gamba in the court of Louis XIV and worked at the Opera next to Lully.
He left almost six hundred pieces for his instrument, some as descriptive as the account of a surgical operation. His figure inspired the film every morning of the world (1991).
Main works
- Pièces de viole, five books (1686-1725)
- Les folies d'Espagne (1701)
- Opera Alcyone, with its famous storm (1706)
- Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris (1723)
- Le tableau de l'opération de la taille (1725)
