Classic Catalog

This facsimile of an original by Jean-Féry Rebel is part of our French Classical Music from 1650 to 1800 collection.

Sheet music scores: Les Caractères de la Danse - La Terpsichore of Jean-Féry Rebel.

Edition :
Les Caractères de la Danse, fantaisie : Paris, l’auteur, Le Clerc, 1715. Full score.
La Terpsichore, sonate : Paris, veuve...

This facsimile of an original by Jacques Christophe Naudot is part of our French Classical Music from 1650 to 1800 collection.

Music sheet: Six concertos à sept parties (flute, 3 violins, viola, bassoon, continuo bass). c. 1737 - Oeuvre XI of Jacques Christophe Naudot.

Edition: L'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, s.d. (= c. 1737).

Music sheet: These were the first f...

This facsimile sheet music by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, La Clerc, 1734.
This work of Boismortier is rather an exception, as witness the flute-violin chordal passages and also the quality of the writing, less easy than many of the composer’s works.
Présentation by Marion Delo...

This facsimile sheet music by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is part of our French classical music collection.

Vingt-deuxième oeuvre.
Edition: Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, 1728.
These extremely original works are also interesting from a pedagogical point of view.
A “must” for anyone interested in the baroque flute.
Présentation by...

This facsimile sheet music by Jean-Baptiste Quentin is part of our French classical music collection.
Edition: Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, Leclerc, c. 1742.
Preface by the students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: biographical elements - hints about the score (terminology, time signatures, ornamentation, phrasing, continuo bass, distribution).
Three separate instrumental p...

This facsimile sheet music by Ignace Pleyel is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: Paris, Sieber, 1788.

Preface by students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: Pleyel's biography the works of Ignace Pleyel - Pleyel the music publisher - Pleyel the piano builder - the Salle Pleyel in rue Rochechouart - hints about the score.

Three separate instrument...

This facsimile sheet music by François André Danican Philidor is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: 1755.

The solo parts of these quartets may be played on the oboe, flute or violin. This meticulously written work calls for three melodic instruments and a continuo bass, and mingles Italian, German and French styles. A work of ...

This facsimile sheet music by Louis-Gabriel Guillemain is part of our French classical music collection.

The combination of flute, violin, viola da gamba and continuo bass is typically French. The viola da gamba may however be replaced by a viola.

Preface by the students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: Guillemain's life - Guillemain at the Concert Spirituel  summ...

This facsimile sheet music by François Devienne is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: Paris, Imbault, 1799.

Preface by Audrey Jacques (CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France): biography - works for flute - the ornamentation of the quartets.

Eight separate instrumental parts: quartets 1 to 3 (flute, violin, viola, bass) - quartets 4 to 6 (flute, violin, ...

This facsimile sheet music by François Devienne is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: Paris, Le Duc, 1785.

Preface by the students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: the ornamentation of the three sonatas.
Two separate instrumental parts: fortepiano, flute.

The preface examines the ornamentation of the three sonatas, typical of the turn...

This facsimile sheet music by François Devienne is part of our French classical music collection.

This facsimile contains three scores of quality chamber music. The instrumentation is interesting and original, particularly the quartet sonata for piano, flute, horn and viola. The trios for three flutes are enjoyable and sometimes of fairly demanding technical level.

This facsimile sheet music by François Devienne is part of our French classical music collection.

Edition: Paris, Le Duc, 1784.

Preface by the students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France (Laurence Baldini, Audrey Jacques): the importance of phrasing at the turn of the XVIIIth-XIXth centuries.

Two separate instrumental parts: flute, viola.

These duos ar...