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"French" cahiers for 1679
Charpentier's French notebooks for this year show him composing for the
Dauphin during the spring months (doubtlessly
a promotional "gift" from Mme de Guise to
her cousin) for the Mercy in August (surely
in order to please Mlle de Guise), and for
Charles Le Brun in August (to celebrate the saint's day of
Louis XIV).
This year was an anxious one for the two Guise women (and probably for
Charpentier as well), because people close to them or to their "people" were
being singled out for intense scrutiny by the investigators of the Poison
Affair. That may be why Charpentier wrote less for the Guises than one might
anticipate. Or was he too busy with music for
theatrical works, some of which survive
only as instrumental preludes in his Roman notebooks.
(Note: it is possible that the oratorio about the Charles Borromeo and the
Plague of Milan, was written for performance in November 1679 rather than
February 1680, where I placed it in my charts.)
Date |
Work |
Performers |
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cahier 22 |
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H 170 Super flumina Babylonis (ps. 136)
Thursday vespers. "La Superflumina des demoiselles
Pieches," written for the
Dauphin's musicians |
hd d b 2 fl |
| mid-August |
H 25 Antiphona in honorem Beatæ Virginis a redemptione
captivorum
"pour les captifs." Matins of the feast of Our Lady of the
Mercy
(text approved in Rome, March 17, 1679) |
hc t 2 tr |
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H 23a Prelude pour Salve Regina à 3
complins or matins. (Hitchcock proposes that this was for H 23 in cahier
16; Cessac suggests it is for H 24 of cahier 17.) |
2 tr |
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H 237a Prélude ... pour O bone Jésus...pour la
paix
for a reuse of the work written in 1676. |
2 tr |
| June 1? |
H 242 Elévation: Ecce panis voce sola
Corpus Christi; salut du Saint Sacrement at Montmartre sung each Thursday |
d |
| June 1? |
H 243 Elévation: Panis angelicus voce sola
6th strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis |
hd |
| August 25 |
H 323 In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ canticum,
for the King's patron saint |
hd d b 2 tr |
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H 171 Superflumina (ps. 136)
Thursday vespers. "Son prélude est au cahyer XXIV," a notebook
containing preludes written between late 1677 to early 1679 |
large ensemble |
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cahier 23 |
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| June? |
H 518 Pour le sacre d'un evesque |
large ensemble |
| Nov. 4 |
see 1680, for the feast of St. Charles Borromeo |
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