Loading details…
Artist
Louis Constantin
12+ albums
frenchbaroqueClassical17th centuryearly baroque
about
Louis Constantin was a French composer born in Paris around 1585 and died in this town in October 1657. Louis Constantin was a member of the Vingt-Quatre Violons du Roi under Louis XIII, and was elected "king of the violins" in 1624, in succession to François Richomme and became a member of the Parisian brotherhood of Saint-Julien, of Players of Instruments. He leaves us a single musical work La Pacifique for six instruments. In 1655 he passes his position of the Twenty-four Violons to his nephew Antoine Desnoyers, his son Jean Constantin was already a member of the ensemble before 1655. The burial ceremony of Louis Constantin took place at the Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris onOctober 25, 1657. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
1
La Pacifique
1552Le Concert royal de la Nuit, Seconde Veille, Vénus & les Grâces: Entrée des Ombres
723Ballet Royal de la Nuit, Deuxiesme partie du Ballet Royal de la Nuict: Entrée des Ombres
694"Pavan" From 't Uitnemend Kabinet
345Allemande (Pavane) a 3, 't Uitnemend kabinet II, 1649
136Gavotte
67'Pavan' From 't Uitnemend Kabinet
48Suite en Sol: II. Le Prince d'Harcourt. Paysan. Ballet des Improvistes, à deux clavecins
49Suite en Sol: VI. Les Bourgeois. Ballet des Improvistes, à deux clavecins
410"Pavan" from "'t Uitnemend Kabinet"
3albums
▥
Le Concert royal de la Nuit
▥
Etienne Moulinié: Meslanges pour la Chapelle d'un Prince
▥
Pachelbel Canon (Original Version) and Other 17th Century Music for Three Violins
Boesset: Je meurs sans mourir
Je meurs sans mourir
▥
Ballet Royal de la Nuit
Ballet De La Nuit
▥
Les Plaisirs du Louvre, Airs pour la Chambre de Louis XIII
▥
Boesset: French Airs De Cour
▥
Le Poème Harmonique, Anthoine Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir
▥
Meslanges pour la Chapelle d'un Prince (Sebastien Dauce, Ensemble Correspondances)
▥
Antoine Boësset: Je meurs sans mourir