At the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris There Exists a Very Unusual 17th Century Manuscript of Music for Solo Viola Da Gamba (Lyra Viol), Known Only By It's Shelf Number Reserve 1111. This Tiny...
If, at the beginning of the 1600s, it was the English who were acknowledged to be experts and virtuosos of the viola da gamba, then it was the French who surpassed them by the middle of the century...
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier embodies a universal ability that reveals itself in, among other things, the enormous variety of genres and settings in his oeuvre. There is no need to give his music "a...