Marc-Antoine Charpentier

by H. Wiley Hitchcock

The French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier is emerging from long neglect as the most important contemporary of Lully. Supplemented by numerous musical illustrations, this study provides a concise and fluent introduction to the composer, his distinctly attractive music, and his place and influence in the world of seventeenth-century French music.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193164116
• ISBN13: 9780193164116
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.8"