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The "Roman" cahiers from 1677 to 1680:
two cahiers of preludes
For several years Charpentier made it a practice to copy all preludes into
one notebook, irrespective of whether the work itself was in a French or
a Roman notebook. The order of the works within these notebooks leave no
doubt that, when he subsequently began numbering his two sets of notebooks,
he inverted the chronological order of two notebooks, calling the notebook
for 1677-1678 "XXIV" and the notebook for 1679-1680 "XXIII" : hence the inversion
of the notebooks in the table below. Thanks to the existence of these two
notebooks, we can map out his commissions for the period 1677-1680, even
though some of the works themselves were subsequently lost. We can also see
that Charpentier did not hesitate to re-use a prelude for another patron.
(By contrast, he seems to have been very scrupulous about not doing
doing that for the works proper.)
Date |
Work |
Performers |
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cahier XXIV |
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| 1677 |
H 540 Ouverture pour quelque belle entreprise |
instruments |
| Feb. 8? |
H 541 Menuets |
instruments |
| Feb. 8? |
H 520 Prélude and
danses |
instruments |
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H 542 Caprice pour trois violons |
instruments |
|
cahier XXIV |
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| February 1678 |
H 499 Ouverture du prologue d'Acis
et de Galathée (for the opera commission by Armand-Jean
de Riants)
(The title was modified in October 1679 to read: "Ouverture du
prologue de l'Inconnu.") |
instruments |
| March? |
Fanfare for two trumpets |
instruments |
| March?
1678 |
H 145a Prélude pour le Te Deum
à 8
"Coppié dans le cahyer où est le Tedeum," that is,
cahier X of 1672. (H 145 therefore was reused in 1678.) |
instruments |
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H 521 Prélude pour l'Exaudiat non encore esprouvé
(The title was later changed to read: "Prélude pour ce qu'on voudra,
non encore employé." The Exaudiat of cahier XI was therefore
going to be reused in 1678, but the new prelude was not performed.) |
instruments |
|
cahier XXIV |
|
| 1679 |
H 171a Prélude pour Super flumina
(For the psalm in cahier 22 that he had just written for the Pièche
sisters, musicians for the Dauphin.) |
instruments |
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H 522 Offerte non encore exécutée |
instruments |
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cahier XXIII |
|
| June 9 1679 |
H 497 Sérénade pour
le Sicilien |
instruments |
| July 11 1679 |
H 498 Ouverture du
Dépit
amoureux
(The title was changed to read: "Ouverture du prologue de Polieucte pour
le Collège d'Harcourt," where Corneille's Polyeucte was
performed in 1680.) |
instruments |
| 1680 |
H 399a Prélude pour l'Enfant prodigue
Filius prodigus is in cahier 29 of 1680. |
instruments |
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H 168a Prélude pour Quam fremuerunt gentes à 8 voix
(For a reuse of the music "for war" and "for the king's arms" of cahier 20,
written in 1678.) |
instruments |
| Nov. 4 1679 or Feb. 28 1680 |
H 398a Prélude pour Horrenda pestis
(For the oratorio about the Plague of Milan of cahiers 23 and 24.) |
instruments |
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H 404a Prélude pour Josué
(Crossed out and redone in 1682 for a work in cahier 34.) |
instruments |
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H 519 Symphonies pour le Jugement de Salomon
(Apparently for a lost work about Solomon. Did he work for the confraternity
at Palais as early as the 1680s?) |
instruments |
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