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St. Mark's Church in Wolfsberg
Louis Marchand (born February 2, 1669 in Lyon; died February 17 1732 in Paris) was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist.
At the age of thirty-one, he became "Organist to the King". He was known for his flamboyant nature both personally and musically, and took Paris by storm when he arrived there from Lyon. By nature he was said to be a difficult and unreliable person, but he was nevertheless known by many as "Marchand le Grand". One surviving anecdote about him states that, while on tour in Leipzig, he arranged to take part in an organ-playing competition with Johann Sebastian Bach, but left the city shortly before the competition was set to begin. Many said that he had fled out of fear of being shown up by Bach, but no conclusive proof of this exists.
A more reliable account of Marchand does indeed survive, and indicates the boldness of his manner. After Marchand's wife had left him, the king ordered him to pay half of his salary to her. As a result of that, an enraged Marchand broke off in the middle of one of his concerts and, before the entire assembled court, told the king that if his wife was receiving half of his salary she should come and play the rest of the concert.
Despite Marchand's success and popularity in his day, only a few airs and cantatas, plus two harpsichord suites (1702) were published. A third book of harpsichord pieces, made of 14 entries (12 in c minor, 2 in C major) and attributed to Louis Marchand for its largest part, has been discovered in France in 2003.
Listen to organ pieces
- Plein jeu http://www.aristote.asso.fr/gui/Sons/marchandplj.wav
- Piece in A minor http://www.aristote.asso.fr/gui/Sons/marchandplm.wav
External links
- *Louis Marchand free scores in the Werner Icking Music Archive
- free scores in the International Music Score Library Project
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Many baroque composers played the harpsichord, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced [ˈjoːhan zəˈbastjan bax]) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.
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The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner Icking.
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. Since its launch on February 16, 2006, more than 15000 scores, for 9000 works, by over 1000 composers (as of
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