It's official: Ton Koopman is celebrating his 80th birthday with
ESTHER
by
Georg Friedrich Händel
I am so looking forward to this; fantastic music,
and there are many, many fabulous chorusses in it.
October 2024, concerts in Holland & Belgium
Have a look in the agenda
by
Georg Friedrich Händel
I am so looking forward to this; fantastic music,
and there are many, many fabulous chorusses in it.
October 2024, concerts in Holland & Belgium
Have a look in the agenda
BUT FIRST .....
A mass by a very colourful person, who was choirmaster at Auxerre cathedral around 1640: Annibal Gantez.
More than his music, Gantez owes his fame to his collection of letters published in a book under the title L'entretien des musiciens.
Those letters are an unrivalled testimony of the daily life of a church musician during the time of Louis XIII.
Moreover, in almost all his letters, Gantez talks about his favourite preoccupation: drinking wine! That’s what we do in Burgundy.
His mass for 4 voices (Missa Laetamini), plus two pieces by M.A. Charpentier,
is to be performed in the village church of Chassy (Yonne)
on the 20th of may at 15H30
More than his music, Gantez owes his fame to his collection of letters published in a book under the title L'entretien des musiciens.
Those letters are an unrivalled testimony of the daily life of a church musician during the time of Louis XIII.
Moreover, in almost all his letters, Gantez talks about his favourite preoccupation: drinking wine! That’s what we do in Burgundy.
His mass for 4 voices (Missa Laetamini), plus two pieces by M.A. Charpentier,
is to be performed in the village church of Chassy (Yonne)
on the 20th of may at 15H30