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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Music at Versailles

Composer of the Week: Music at Versailles: Episode 4

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Music at Versailles

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Music at Versailles, Episode 4

Donald Macleod visits the location favoured by Louis XV's wife for her musical soirees.

Donald Macleod visits the Peace Drawing Room, favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirees. With music by Rameau, Daquin, Campra, Mondonville and Mozart.

At the Palace of Versailles, Donald Macleod visits the Peace Drawing Room favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirées and the famous Hall of Mirrors, where Louis XIV met Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Étoilles, soon to be Madame de Pompadour, at the Yew Tree Ball. With Olivier Baumont.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the music that was performed at the Palace of Versailles

Donald Macleod explores the music that was performed at the Palace of Versailles before the French Revolution in 1789

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