Louis Marchand (1669-1732) - Suite en ré (1699)

Joyeux anniversaire Louis Marchand! 🎹👑 Composer: Louis Marchand (1669-1732) Work: Suite en ré mineur (1699) Performers: Kenneth Gilbert (1931-2020, clavecin) Suite en ré (1699) 1. Prélude 0:00 2. Allemande 2:27 3. Courante 5:49 4. Sarabanda 7:32 5. Gigue 10:50 6. Chaconne 12:31 7. Gavotte 16:26 8. Menuet 17:51 Painting: Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744) - Palace Garden with Water Features HD image: Engraving: Charles Dupuis (1685-1742) - Louis Marchand, French composer and organist HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Louis Marchand (Lyons, 2 February 1669 - Paris, 17 February 1732) French harpsichordist, organist and composer. Son of Jean Marchand, at the age of 14, he was made organist at Nevers Cathedral. He went to Paris in 1689, and in 1691 he received the post of organist of the Jesuit church in the rue St. Jacques; he was also organist at other Parisian churches. In 1708 he was named an ’organiste du roi’, in which capacity he earned a considerable reputation, and in 1713 he made a major tour of Germany. Marchand’s name is historically connected with that of Bach because both were scheduled to meet in open competition in Dresden in 1717. Only German sources describe this unflattering episode in Marchand’s career (principally F.W. Marpurg, J.A. Birnbaum and Jacob Adlung); all agree that Marchand slipped away before the arrival of the celebrated Weimar organist. According to Titon du Tillet, either through tact or ignorance, was of the opinion that Marchand’s return to Paris shortly after the Dresden débâcle was due to homesickness. On his return he was taken in by the Cordeliers, whose organist he remained until the end of his days. His importance as a composer rests on his extant keyboard music. All of it dates from early in his career. He also wrote the opera ’Pyrame et Thisbé’ (lost), the cantata ’Alcione’ and 3 cantiques spirituels. He is not related with the composer and theorist Louis-Joseph Marchand (1692-1774).