Michel Richard Delalande

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order of Saint-Michel
, with which he was conferred in 1722, but his features appear much as they were two decades earlier.
Michel Richard de Lalande, after painting by Jean-Baptiste Santerre, engraving by Thomassin

Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] (French pronunciation:

grands motets
. He also wrote orchestral suites known as Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy and ballets.

Biography

Born in Paris, he was a contemporary of

Versailles
in 1726.

Delalande was arguably the greatest composer of French

Coupillet, Collasse and Minoret). Delalande's was the most important quarter of the year because of the Christmas holiday. Later he had full responsibility for the church music for the complete year. At his death, since he left no mass of his own, the 1656 requiem of the Dukes of Lorraine by Charles d'Helfer
was sung.

Works

Delalande left many versions of his works. His earlier versions show adherence to French Baroque style, but the later revisions incorporate more Italian melismatic lines and greater attention to polyphonic counterpoint.

Also, at least four collections of his works exist, each displaying different looks at composer's work as viewed by the people who assembled each collection.

Scholarship of Delalande's work was for many years hindered because of inconsistencies in the spelling of his last name: de Lalande, Lalande, la Lande, de la Lande, and others. The family wrote the name as 'Delalande'. Finally, in 2006 the definitive "Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)" by noted British musicologist Lionel Sawkins came out which runs to 752 pages containing over 3,000 music examples and details of performing requirements and of all source materials, as well as with comprehensive indexes and thematic locators.

Vocal

Instrumental Delalande was an expert organist and harpsichordist, and yet has left not a single note of keyboard music.[1]

  • ritournelles - twelve substantial ritournelles for François Fossard and André Danican Philidor's book of Airs italiens (1695). For example, Delalande supplies a 31-bar-long ritournelle for two violins and continuo composed before ‘Giurai di non amar’ an aria from Domenico Freschi's Olimpia vendicata of 1681.[2]

Selected recordings

  • Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy. Hugo Reyne (HMA) 1990
  • Les Folies de Cardenio. Christophe Coin (Laborie) - court ballet, "The Insanities of Cardenio", after Cervantes. 2004
  • Grands Motets : Te Deum, Confitebor, Super Flumina. Christie (HMA) 1991
  • Grands Motets : De Profundis, Miserere, Confitebor tibi. Higginbottom (Erato) 1990
  • Grands Motets : Dies Irae. Miserere. Herreweghe (HMC901352) 1991
  • Grands Motets : Beati quorum. Quam dilecta. Audite caeli. Schneebeli (Virgin) 2002
  • Grands Motets : Deus noster refugium Ps.46. Exaltabo te Domine. Le Parlement de Musique. Martin Gester (Opus 111) 2001
  • Grands Motets : Regina coeli. De Profundis. Cantate Domino. Skidmore (ASV) 1995
  • Petits motets: Miserere à voix seule. Vanum est vobis. Gens, Piau, Christie (HMT) 1992
  • 3 Leçons de Ténèbres 1730. Desrochers (Astree) 1996

References

  1. ^ Catherine Massip Michel-Richard Delalande, ou, Le Lully latin 2005 "Que savons-nous de Delalande claveciniste? Comme certains de ses confrères dont les plus illustres, les Couperin, Delalande pratique de façon experte les deux instruments à clavier. En l'absence de toute pièce de clavecin signée de son, nous en sommes réduits aux conjectures sur la nature et les qualités de celles-ci."
  2. ^ Lionel Sawkins Full Exotic nectar transformed: the grands motets of Delalande's maturity

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