Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

L'arrangement des Sonates à deux Violes pour alto et violoncelle s'est imposé comme une évidence, car la partie inférieure est principalement en clef de sol : un enrichissement du genre.

These works contain some of Boismortier's finest and most accomplished music. Written in the 'Italian' style, they are an extension of his sonata writing for one or two instruments and continuo, and y...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's Op. 20 sonatas for solo violin and basso continuo (1727) are the least known of all his sets of sonatas for one or more violins and accompaniment. These very fine works a...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's Op. 20 sonatas for solo violin and basso continuo (1727) are the least known of all his sets of sonatas for one or more violins and accompaniment. These very fine works a...

Les Six Sonates a deux violons Op. 71 de Boismortier ont été publiées en 1738, mais on peut supposer que peu d'exemplaires ont été imprimés ; tous les catalogues récents des compositions de Boismortie...

Boismortier has imbued his Op. 28 sonatas with the same elegance, melodic and harmonic interest, and contrapuntal ability that characterise his other 'Italian' trio sonatas, and the works are technica...

Partly on account of their instrumentation, the Op. 18 sonatas are closely modelled on Corelli's Opp. 1-4, both in terms of style and violin technique. Each consists of four or five movements, at leas...

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's [VI] Sonates en Trio Pour deux Violons avec la Baße Op. 18, which appeared in 1727, are veritable gems of high baroque French instrumental music.

These works contain some of Boismortier's finest and most accomplished music. Written in the 'Italian' style, they are an extension of his sonata writing for one or two instruments and continuo, and y...

The chaconne was particularly dear to French baroque composers, from Lully to Leclair, from Marais to Rameau, and Boismortier was no exception. In one of his most original works, the Quinque sur l'oct...