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Marin Marais (
31 May 1656,
Paris –
15 August 1728, Paris) was a
French composer and
viol player. He studied composition with
Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his
operas, and with master of the bass viol
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in
1676 to the royal court of
Versailles. He did quite well as court musician, and in
1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until
1725.
He was a master of the
basse de viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument. He wrote five books of
Pièces de viole (
1686-
1725) for the instrument, generally suites with
basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" (
Hubert Le Blanc,
1740). His other works include a book of
Pièces en trio (
1692) and four
operas (
1693-
1709),
Alcyone (
1706) being noted for its tempest scene.
Titon du Tillet included Marais in
Le Parnasse françois, making the following comments on two of his pieces:
As with Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais' personal life is known after he reached adulthood. Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine d'Amicourt, on 21 September 1676. They had 19 children together.
Facsimiles of all five books of Marais'
Pièces de viole are published by
Éditions J.M. Fuzeau. A complete critical edition of his instrumental works in seven volumes, edited by
John Hsu, is published by
Broude Brothers.
Media
References in Film
Marais and his music were featured in the film
Tous les matins du monde (1991), an atmospheric, meticulously imagined life of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. Marais' music figured prominently in that film, including his longer work
Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris (
1723). A recording of the Sonnerie performed on a
Fairlight synthesizer was used in the cult classic film
Liquid Sky.
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