

An edition of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1990)
By H. Wiley Hitchcock
Publish Date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
130
Description:
The French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier is emerging from long neglect as the most important contemporary of Lully. Supplemented by numerous musical illustrations, this study provides a concise and fluent introduction to the composer, his distinctly attractive music, and his place and influence in the world of seventeenth-century French music.