Spirit Suites

François FrancÅ“ur (1698 – 1787) “Suite de simphonies pour le festin royal de Monseigneur le Comte d’Artois” [Music for the Wedding of the Count d'Artois] (1773) – Suite in G minor: VII. Contredanse La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne. * Painting: “La Toilette”, François Boucher, 1730 (Huile sur toile – Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Lugano). ** Superintendent of Music for the Kings Chamber and a noted violinist, François FrancÅ“ur was one of the most high-profile French musicians of the XVIIIth century. Louis XV and his Court pampered this attractive virtuoso who devised the finest, most festive music for the Kings celebrations. In 1773, for the wedding of the Count of Artois, the future Charles X, with Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, he performed his Simphonies which contributed to the “great disorder” (ie feverish atmosphere) noted in his diary by the “Intendant des Menus Plaisirs”, in charge of the festivities. FrancÅ“urs suites “à la française”, by their modernity, paint a fascinating wordless portrait of a period in which revolution seems unthinkable, but in which the French spirit shows itself ready for profound transformation.

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