The staged work Les fontaines de Versailles was
performed at Versailles, April 5, 1683. It has the
number S133 in the catalog of de Lalande's music, and
the source used for this publication is a manuscript
with the number F-537 from the Philidor collection now
preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in
Paris. The music published here will probably never
contain the complete work, just small excerpts. I have
always tried to be as close to the original as
possible. Editorial changes ha...(+)
The staged work Les fontaines de Versailles was
performed at Versailles, April 5, 1683. It has the
number S133 in the catalog of de Lalande's music, and
the source used for this publication is a manuscript
with the number F-537 from the Philidor collection now
preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in
Paris. The music published here will probably never
contain the complete work, just small excerpts. I have
always tried to be as close to the original as
possible. Editorial changes have been put above the
staffs, or within parenthesis. Slashed figures in the
continuo have been replaced with their flat/natural or
sharp equivalents. All accidentals and clefs have been
converted to modern standard. The original clefs for
the chaconne was (bottom-up) Bass, Alto, Mezzo-soprano,
Soprano and two parts with french violin clef.