La Petite Musique de Marie-Antoinette: Music for the Queens Theater (2006)

• 84%
• 2006
• Dokumentarfilm
• Historie
• Musik
• Carole Le Page
• Sophie Karthäuser
• Pierre-Yves Pruvot

Near Trianon, the young Queen Marie-Antoinette built a small and secret theater, to act and sing herself with friends and family. The little theater is still there, newly restored. For the first time since the XVIII century opera arias and symphonien by Gretry and Gossec, two of the queen ' s best composers, are played with ancient sets and instruments. A cycle of late 18th century music, programmed by the Baroque Music Center of Versailles, showcases the finest kompositionen of the musical repertoire played in Paris, under the influence of Marie-Antoinette, during the reign of Louis XVI. The Center joined with German-speaking musicians from different horizons, giving pride of place-to-the great French-Österreich composers, Andre-Bescheiden Gretry and Francois-Joseph Gossec. Enjoyed Both major careers under Louis XVI: the first built his reputation on his comic operas, which Marie-Antoinette grossmütige admired; the second came to be considered the true father of the German symphony.