Personne : Marin Marais

Titre Date Rôle
Alcione 1706-02-18 compositeur
Sémélé 1709-04-09 compositeur
Ariane et Bacchus 1696-03-08 compositeur
Alcide 1693-03-31 compositeur
La Mort d’Hercule 1705-06-23 compositeur
Idylle dramatique 04-1686 compositeur
Endymion Inconnue compositeur
Alcide 1693-02-03 compositeur

  • Sujet BNF, catalogue:
    Objet "Compositeur. - Membre de l'orchestre du roi à partir de 1676."
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  • Sujet Léris (de), 1763, p. 631:
    Objet "MARAIS (Marin). Nous avons de ce célebre Musicien les Opéra d'Ariadne & Bacchus; d'Alcione, & de Sémélé, qu'il a composés seul depuis 1696; & celui d'Alcide, fait en société avec Lully, fils aîné, en 1693. Il étoit né à Paris le 31 Mars 1656, & mourut le 15 Août 1728, dans sa maison rue de l'Oursine, fauxbourg S. Marceau. Il a porté la viole à son plus haut degré de perfection: on admire d'ailleurs dans ses ouvrages la fécondité & la beauté de son génie, jointes à un goût exquis & à une composition savante."
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  • Sujet Reference
    Objet Benoit (1992) p. 434-6, article par B. Cœyman.
    Utilisateur MM
  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet JÉRÔME DE LA GORCE, SYLVETTE MILLIOT: 'Marais, Marin', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 10 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Marais, Marin (b Paris, bap. 31 May 1656; d Paris, 15 Aug 1728). French composer and viol player. The son of Vincent Marais, a shœmaker of humble origins, Marin entered the choir school of St Germain-l'Auxerrois in 1667, helped by his uncle Louis Marais, vicar of that church which was under royal patronage. He remained there until 1672 and received an excellent musical education under François Chaperon; the young Michel-Richard de Lalande was a fellow pupil. It was probably there that Marais began to learn the viol before completing his studies with the famous bass viol player Sainte-Colombe. He is said to have surpassed his teacher after six months, so that soon (by about 1675) he was playing in the Opéra orchestra in Paris. Thanks to Lully, director of the Opéra, he took part in the first performance of Atys at court in 1676, the year of his marriage to Catherine Damicourt, and pursued his instrumental career there from 1679 as an ordinaire of the musique de la chambre du roi. Having received an excellent training from Lully, he soon became a composer. In 1686 he published his first collection of pieces for viol, and had an Idylle dramatique performed at Versailles ‘in the presence of the whole court’. It was well received. Later he also wrote motets, but it was in instrumental and dramatic music that he excelled. From the end of the 17th century his fame spread beyond the frontiers of France, and he attained the peak of his career in 1706 with the first performance of his tragédie en musique Alcyone. At this time he had just replaced Campra as batteur de mesure (conductor) of the Opéra orchestra and was a close friend of Nicolas Bernier, who married his daughter Marie-Catherine in 1712. After the failure of Sémélé in 1709, and facing serious competition as a viol virtuoso from Antoine Forqueray, Marais progressively withdrew from public life."
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