Le Terpsicore

Composer: REBEL, Jean-Féry
  • This piece is a sonata for violin, flute and basso continuo, composed 1720. Rebel was among the first French composers to write in the sonata genre.1
  • This piece was dedicated to the wife of financier John Law, one of Rebel’s many wealthy patrons.2
  • Terpsichore was the ancient Greek muse of dance and choral song.

Sources

  1. Catherine Cessac, “Rebel family,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 7, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023001
  2. Ibid.

Cut IDs

10991