Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon (1730-1792) - Sonate pour le clavecin

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Composer: Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon (1730-1792)
Work: Sonate pour le clavecin ou le piano forte
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Gratioso 6:29
3. Allegro 9:30

Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10861078j/f5.item#
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/rkrxti0ib8oud3q/CHABANON-Sonata.xml/file

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Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon
(Santo Domingo, West Indies, 1730 - Paris, 10 June 1792)

French writer on music, violinist and composer. His early rigorous Jesuit education was supplemented by violin lessons. He played in chamber and orchestral groups and composed works including sonatas for harpsichord with accompanying violin. Chabanon was admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1759. He participated actively in the current opera controversies and continued to play the violin. These diverse experiences set him apart from other French men of letters, who had little direct experience of instrumental music, and they impelled him to advocate stronger associations between authors and professional musicians. His early mentors included Rameau, with whom he maintained close friendship, and Voltaire, with whom he exchanged information about the writing of plays and opera librettos. Voltaire praised his Eloge de Rameau (Paris, 1764) in which Chabanon hailed the importance of Rameau's theoretical system as well as his operatic instrumental music. He was also a successful musician, playing the violin from 1769 in the Concert des Amateurs under the direction of Joseph Bologne, chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was the author of an opera, 'Sémélé, tragédie lyrique', and of several works on music theory, of which the most valued are his commentaries on music in the work of Aristotle. His double identity as a writer and a musician gave him a unique viewpoint on the links between music and language and in developing a philosophy of music of which his work was the expression. He also contributed to defining opera as a musical genre.