The most beautiful polyphonic canzoni, chansons, motets and madrigals, were used like today's pop standards in the 16th century; musicians would improvise on them, tailoring their playing and...
Could Bach's Suites be most representative of his French identity? Composed in Germany around 1720 at the Court of K?then, like the Brandenburg Concertos, for a Francophile and gambist, they find in...