Canon
Where to start with Marais
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
Chamber2 Menuets in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
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Chamber2 Musettes in A minor, nos. 28-29
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ChamberAllemande et double in G major, nos. 94-95
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ChamberAllemande in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberAllemande la Magnifique et double in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberAllemande la Marianne in G minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberChaconne en rondeau in G major, no. 82
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ChamberChaconne, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
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ChamberCloches ou Carillons in D minor, no. 38
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ChamberCouplets de folies in D minor, no. 20
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ChamberCourante in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberCourante in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberDialogue, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
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ChamberFantaisie et double in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
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ChamberGigue a l'angloise in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Marais's catalogueMost Popular
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Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
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Pièces de viole — La Rêveuse
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Alcyone — Tempest scene
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Les Voix humaines (viol piece)
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Tombeau pour M. de Sainte-Colombe
Most Acclaimed
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Pièces de viole (5 volumes complete)
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Alcyone (opera)
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Pièces en trio
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Pièces de viole Book 2
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Les Folies d\’Espagne
Most Weird
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Le Tableau de l\’opération de la taillemusical depiction of a gallstone removal operation — with margin annotations describing the surgeon approaching, the incision, the extraction, the screaming
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Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevièvean entire piece built on a repeated bass pattern — one of the earliest great examples of chaconne
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Alcyone — Tempest scene1706 — one of the first storm scenes in French opera; astonishingly theatrical
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Pièces de viole Book 4 — Labyrinthea maze depicted in music
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Pièces de viole Book 5 — Le Badinageplayful and technically demanding simultaneously
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 85
- Chamber
- 2 Menuets in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- 2 Musettes in A minor, nos. 28-29
- Allemande et double in G major, nos. 94-95
- Allemande in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Allemande la Magnifique et double in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Allemande la Marianne in G minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Chaconne en rondeau in G major, no. 82
- Chaconne, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
- Cloches ou Carillons in D minor, no. 38
- Couplets de folies in D minor, no. 20
- Courante in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Courante in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Dialogue, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
- Fantaisie et double in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Gigue a l'angloise in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Gigue in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Gigue la Pagode in G minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Gigue la Precieuse in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Gigue la petite in G major, no. 101
- La Gamme en Forme de Petit Opéra, for violin, viola da gamba and continuo in C
- La Georgienne dite la Maupertuis in G minor, no. 73
- La Guitare in G major, no. 107
- La Muzette in G major, no. 105
- La Polonaise, in D minor, no. 40
- La Reveuse, for viola da gamba and continuo in F minor
- La Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont à Paris, for violin, viola da gamba, and continuo
- Le Jeu du volant in G major, no. 87
- Le basque et double, nos. 39-40
- Les Relevailles, for viola da gamba and continuo in E minor
- Les Voix Humaines in D major, no. 63
- Les folies d'Espagne
- Marche a la turque, for viola da gamba and continuo in A
- Marche persane dite La Savigny in E minor, no. 102
- Pieces de viole: Suite in D minor, for guitar, viola da gamba and theorbo
- Pièces de viole
- Pièces à une et à trois viola da gamba
- Prélude en harpegement in A minor, no. 16
- Prélude in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Prélude in G major, no. 65
- Prélude in G minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Rondeau in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Rondeau le Troilleur, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
- Saillie du Caffé et double, for viola da gamba and continuo in C
- Saillie du Jardin in G major, no. 85
- Saraband Grave in C minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Sarabande Grave in G major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Sarabande a l'Espagnol in E minor, no. 101
- Sarabande in G minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Sonate à la Marésienne, for violin, viola da gamba, and continuo in C
- Suite d'un gout etranger, nos. 55b-87
- Suite en Trio, no. 2
- Suite for 2 Treble Instruments and Continuo in B flat major
- Suite for 2 Treble Instruments and Continuo in C minor
- Suite for 2 Treble Instruments and Continuo in C minor
- Suite for 2 Treble Instruments and Continuo in E minor
- Suite for 2 Treble Instruments and Continuo in G minor
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in A minor
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in A minor
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in B minor
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in D
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in E minor
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in G
- Suite for viola da gamba and continuo in G minor
- Suite in A minor
- Suite in A minor, for 2 viola da gambas, guitar, theorbo and harpsichord
- Suite in A minor, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Suite in B Major: Plainte
- Suite in C
- Suite in D
- Suite in D
- Suite in D Major
- Suite in D major, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Suite in D minor, for 2 violas da gamba and continuo, nos. 66-72
- Suite in E minor
- Suite in G
- Suite in G major, for 2 viola da gambas, guitar, theorbo and harpsichord
- Suite in G major, for 2 violas da gamba and continuo, nos. 73-82
- Suite in G minor
- Suite, for 3 violas da gamba and continuo in D major, nos. 88-96
- Suite, for 3 violas da gamba and continuo in G major, nos. 97-108
- Sujet Diversitez: Theme and 20 variations, for viola da gamba and continuo in G
- Tableau de l'operation de la taille, for viola da gamba and continuo in E minor
- Tombeau de Mr. Meliton, for 2 violas da gamba and continuo in G minor, no. 83
- Tombeau pour Marais le Cadet in G minor, no. 71
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- Sémélé — Opera