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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Oxford Studies of Composers)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Oxford Studies of Composers Author: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.