L'Art du Violon - The Art of French Violin Music

The series aims to familiarize the audience with French violin music through the works of violinists active in France since the 18th century and the works they left behind. L'Art du Violon - Violin Technique" is the title of a series of instructional violin books, and in the 18th century, many collections of violin works and instructional books were published by talented violinists in Paris. It was also in France that the first national conservatory of music in Europe began systematic musical education and quickly established the instruments and violin playing techniques of the Classical and Romantic eras. We hope that you will enjoy with us the transition of the violin and its musical essence as people from one generation to the next seek the essence of the violin instrument and its music, while moving back and forth between eras.

　The first session, entitled "Fusion of Interests," will focus on violin sonatas published in Paris in the 1720s and 1730s, with a focus on works by Jean-Marie Leclerc, a French violinist who represented the first half of the 18th century. The history of French violin sonatas can be said to be the history of the fusion of Italian and French music, as evidenced by the fact that the "sonata" music originally originated in Italy. The tastes of composers and players are often expressed in this way. Leclerc's four-volume collection of violin sonatas is often called "representative of Baroque violin music," but since he himself studied violin and composition in Italy, his works are more "French-like" than "French-like" among the French musical works of the same period, and they are a truly wonderful fusion of late Italian music and French taste. The music of this period was a fusion of late Italian music and French taste, rather than "typically French" music. What kind of music did French violinists of this period enjoy playing? We hope you will listen to them.
Program
J.-M. Leclerc
Violin Sonatas
No. 1 in A minor from Op. 1, Vol. 1
No. 8 in D major, from Volume 3, Op. 5
J. B. Somis
Violin Sonata Op. 6-4 in C major
J.-J.C. de Mondonville
Clavissant, Op. 3-1 Sonata in G minor
(with violin accompaniment)
J. Aubert
Violin Sonatas, Op. 3-8 in D minor
etc.