Stéphan Perreau - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Variations en mineur (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 191 Mb | Total time: 47:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # PV702111 | Recorded: 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 191 Mb | Total time: 47:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # PV702111 | Recorded: 2002
Few eighteenth-century composers earned a personal fortune solely by writing music; Joseph Bodin de Boismortier did, and could claim to be the first Frenchman to sell his talents on the open market. By 1700, the spread of music printing and publishing in Europe, allied to the growth of amateur music-making, made substantial sales of new music possible, and Boismortier seized every opportunity for meeting the popular demand for tuneful, technically simple pieces for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Within a year of arriving in Paris in 1723, his first publications were on sale, and by 1747 had been followed by 102 works.