Music at the court of Louis XIV /
When Louis ascended the throne in 1661, the French lacked confidence in their own culture, feeling that Italian work was superior. He changed that, making his court at Versailles a brilliant cultural center. Filmed largely at Versailles, this program features the music of Jean Baptiste Lully, who wr...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities,
[2003]
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| Series: | Man and music (DVD videodiscs). Composer and court.
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| Summary: | When Louis ascended the throne in 1661, the French lacked confidence in their own culture, feeling that Italian work was superior. He changed that, making his court at Versailles a brilliant cultural center. Filmed largely at Versailles, this program features the music of Jean Baptiste Lully, who wrote music for Moliere's plays; the religious composer Michel-Richard de Lalande, and the keyboard composer Francois Couperin. |
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| Item Description: | Videodisc release of the 1986 production. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 DVD-video (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD-R. |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Andrew Carchrae and John Simmons ; editors, Mike Akester and John Edmiston ; stage & costume design, Terence Emery. |