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Michel Pignolet de Monteclair
12+ albums
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Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (4 December 1667 – 22 September 1737) was a French composer of the baroque period. He was born Michel Pignolet in Andelot, Haute-Marne, France, and only later added "Montéclair" (the name of a fortress in his home town) to his name. Little is known of his life, and there are no known portraits. He was the son of a weaver; his entrance into the choir school at the age of nine may have been the only chance of escaping the poverty of a weaver's life. In 1687, he went to Paris and joined the orchestra of the Opera, where he played the basse de violon. In Paris he studied with Jean-Baptiste Moreau. At some point between 1687 and the early years of the new century, he seems to have been maître de musique to the Prince de Vaudémont and to have followed him to Italy. It was probably from there that he brought the idea to add the double bass to the opera orchestra. All the time Montéclair must have worked as a music teacher of high regard: among his pupils were the daughters of his colleague François Couperin. His approach to teaching was fresh and almost modern. He published books on teaching music (e.g. 1709), and around 1730 he published "Recueil de brunettes", which contains vocal music adapted for flute. The collection was expressly intended as a pedagogical tool to teach French style, and for this reason the music is underlaid with the text. He opened a music shop in 1721, retired from teaching in 1735, and gave up his position in the opera orche
top songs
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Jephté: Prologue - Ouverture
1232Jephté: Prologue - "Riez sans cesse" - "Dans ces beaux lieux"
923Jephté: Prologue - "De quels nouveaux concerts"
884La mort de Didon (The Death of Dido): Récitatif: Infidèle, pourquoi quittez-vous ce rivage? - Faithless one, why are you leaving these shores?
195Cantata La Bergère Livre III No.V
186Cantate Le Dèpit gènèreux Livre I No.IV
187La mort de Didon (The Death of Dido): Lent, marqué et détaché: Je ne verrai donc plus Énée - So I shall not see Aeneas again
188La mort de Didon (The Death of Dido): Air lent: O Toi, Déesse de Cithère, tendre Vénus - O Thou, goddess of Cytherea, tender Venus
139La mort de Didon (The Death of Dido): Vivement: Tyrans de l'empire de l'onde - Tyrants of the empire of the waves
1310La mort de Didon (The Death of Dido): Récitatif: Non! Arrêtez! - No! Stop!
12albums
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Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau
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French Baroque Cantatas (The Perfection of Music, Masterpieces of the French Baroque, Vol. I)
Florilegium ('Fatale Flame') - Music from 18th Century France
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Ljungar-Chapelon, Anders: Basse de traversiere
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Monteclair: Flute Concertos Nos. 1-4
Monteclair: Cantates a voix seule
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Monteclair: Trumpet Concertos Nos. 3-6
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Baroque Era Vol.2
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Fil d'argent, fil d'or
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Birds
The Perfection of Music: Masterpieces of the French Baroque
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Monteclair: La Guerre et la paix, Concerts pour la Flute traversière avec la Basse chifrée