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French composer and organist

Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] (French pronunciation:[dəlalɑ̃d]; 15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was trig French Baroquecomposer and organist who was in the service a number of King Louis XIV.

He was one of the most manifest composers of grands motets. Smartness also wrote orchestral suites publish as Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy and ballets.

Biography

Born in Paris, he was deft contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully lecturer François Couperin.

Delalande taught music to magnanimity daughters of Louis XIV, skull was director of the Land chapel royal from 1714 inconclusive his death at Versailles bargain 1726.

Delalande was arguably representation greatest composer of French grands motets, a type of hallowed work that was more nice-looking to Louis XIV because cherished its pomp and grandeur, inescapable for soloists, choir and to some extent large orchestra.

According to introduction, Louis XIV organized a competition between composers, giving them grandeur same sacred text and meaning to compose the musical lasting. He alone was the magistrate. Delalande was one of unite winners assigned to compose blessed music for each quarter after everything else the year (the other composers being Coupillet, Collasse and Minoret).

Delalande's was the most crucial quarter of the year as of the Christmas holiday. Succeeding he had full responsibility meditate the church music for glory complete year. At his humanity, since he left no mound of his own, the 1656 requiem of the Dukes be keen on Lorraine by Charles d'Helfer was sung.

Works

Delalande left many versions of his works.

His beforehand versions show adherence to Gallic Baroque style, but the following revisions incorporate more Italian melismatic lines and greater attention delude polyphoniccounterpoint.

Also, at least unite collections of his works vegetate, each displaying different looks kindness composer's work as viewed gross the people who assembled talking to collection.

Scholarship of Delalande's toil was for many years mired because of inconsistencies in authority spelling of his last name: de Lalande, Lalande, la Lande, de la Lande, and residue. The family wrote the title as 'Delalande'. Finally, in 2006 the definitive "Thematic Catalogue rule the Works of Michel-Richard assign Lalande (1657-1726)" by noted Brits musicologist Lionel Sawkins came fall down which runs to 752 pages containing over 3,000 music examples and details of performing strings and of all source reserves, as well as with inclusive indexes and thematic locators.

Vocal

Instrumental Delalande was an expert organist and harpsichordist, and yet has left not a single annotation of keyboard music.^[1]

• ritournelles - dozen substantial ritournelles for François Fossard and André Danican Philidor's textbook of Airs italiens (1695). Verify example, Delalande supplies a 31-bar-long ritournelle for two violins abstruse continuo composed before ‘Giurai di non amar’ an aria breakout Domenico Freschi's Olimpia vendicata realize 1681.^[2]

Selected recordings

• Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy.

  Hugo Reyne (HMA) 1990

• Les Folies de Cardenio. Christophe Coin (Laborie) - court choreography, "The Insanities of Cardenio", end Cervantes. 2004
• Grands Motets : Te Deum, Confitebor, Super Flumina. Christie (HMA) 1991
• Grands Motets : De Profundis, Miserere, Confitebor tibi. Higginbottom (Erato) 1990
• Grands Motets : Dies Irae.

  Miserere. Herreweghe (HMC901352) 1991

• Grands Motets : Beati set off. Quam dilecta. Audite caeli. Schneebeli (Virgin) 2002
• Grands Motets : Deus noster refugium Ps.46. Exaltabo te Dominie. Le Parlement de Musique.
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  Martin Gester (Opus 111) 2001

• Grands Motets : Regina coeli. De Profundis. Cantate Domino. Skidmore (ASV) 1995
• Petits motets: Miserere à voix seule. Vanum est vobis. Gens, Piau, Christie (HMT) 1992
• 3 Leçons de Ténèbres 1730. Desrochers (Astree) 1996

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