Concerto Comique No. 19, “La turque (The Turk)” in A Major

Composer: CORRETTE, Michel
  • This piece is from a set of 25 “comic concertos” for three treble instruments and continuo which Corrette composed c. 1733-60.1
  • Corrette originally conducted these as entertainment during the intermission at open-air Opéra-Comique performances.
  • Most of Corrette’s Comic Concertos are based on popular songs of Corrette’s time.
  • This concerto is No. 19, La Turque et la Confession, “The Turk (orTurkish’) and the Confession”), composed 1749-50.2
    • Some other choice concerto titles in this collection include:3
      • No. 5 “The woman is a great embarrassment” [La Femme est un grand embarras (1733)]
      • No. 7 “The Servant to Good Tobacco” [La Servante au bon tabac (1733)]
      • No. 10, “My Wife Margo” [Ma mie Margo (1737)]
      • No. 13, “Father Barnaba’s Crutch” [La Béquille du Père Barnaba (1737)
      • No. 16, “What about Going to the Woods?” [Vla c’que c’est qu’d’aller aux bois? (1743)]
      • No. 17, “Puppets” [Les Pantins (1748)]
      • No. 18, “The Peat Bog” [Le Tourière (1748)]

“to be of comfort to the melancholy”

Michel Corrette, on the purpose of his Comic Concertos4

Sources

  1. David Fuller and Bruce Gustafson, “Corrette, Michel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 22, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006563.
  2. François Filiatrault, trans. Fred A. Reed, “Michel Corrette: Composer for the Common Man” (1997-99), liner notes to Corrette: Symphonies des noëls, concertos comiques, Arion, ATMA 2192, CD, 1999.
  3. “25 Concertos Comiques (Corrette, Michel), International Music Score Library Project, accessed August 22, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/25_Concertos_Comiques_(Corrette%2C_Michel).
  4. François Filiatrault, trans. Fred A. Reed, “Michel Corrette: Composer for the Common Man” (1997-99), liner notes to Corrette: Symphonies des noëls, concertos comiques, Arion, ATMA 2192, CD, 1999.

Cut IDs

12943