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BOISMORTIER – Chaconne, in A Major – TWO CELLOS

Other Identification:
PETITES SONATES SUIVIES D’UNE CHACONNE Pour deux Bassons, Violonceles ou Violes – Oeuvre soixante sixiéme
(English: LITTLE SONATAS FOLLOWED BY A CHACONNE For two Bassoons, Cellos or Viols – Work sixty-six)
Composed in 1737

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas , opera-ballets , and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal license for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for sale to the public.
Boismortier was the first French composer to use the Italian concerto form, in his six concertos for five flutes op. 15. (1727). He also wrote the first French solo concerto for any instrument, a concerto for cello , viol , or bassoon (1729).
The music theorist Jean-Benjamin de la Borde wrote in his Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (Essay on ancient and modern music) in 1780 about Boismortier: “Happy is Boismortier, whose fertile pen can give birth without pain to a whole new volume of music every month”. In response to such comments, it is said that Boismortier would simply answer “I’m earning money” !

Movements or sections:
A one movement work that anticipates a sonata movement
In A Major, with a central section in A minor.

Instrumentation:
DUO OF TWO CELLOS
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1 PDF, as a playing score

Approximate difficulty:
Easy

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