Collegium Marianum concert cycle BAROQUE SOIRÉES
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This chamber music program will take us to the chambers of Louis XIV, the Sun King. The concert will feature works by court musicians Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Marin Marais, and Robert de Visée, three famous virtuosos who advanced the limits of their instruments toward greater technical complexity and solo performance. Their works also form a very important repertoire for modern players of early instruments: the transverse flute, viola da gamba, and instruments of the lute family. The program will be enriched by excerpts from the letters of Marie de Sévigné, read by Barbora Munzarová. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, addressed her letters primarily to her daughter. In her captivating narrative, full of keen observations and humor, she captures the everyday life of the French nobility in the 17th century, full of court intrigues, social events, and family concerns. Her letters are an extremely valuable literary and historical document that reveals the mentality and culture of Louis XIV’s France.