Lalande, Michel-Richard de. (1657 - 1726). MOTETS DE FEU Mr. DE LA LANDE. Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roy, Maître de Musique et Compositeur Ordinaire de la Chapelle et de la Chambre de sa Majesté. LIVRE IX - XVI. . Paris: Boivin; Hue(with pasted label of Chez Mercier). [1729 - 1734]. First edition. Eight volumes in two, containing Livre(s) IX, X, XI, XII and Livre(s) XIII, XIV, XV, XVI. Large folio (27 x 37.5 cm). Engraved throughout. From the library of the French composer Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862), with his ownership stamps. Both volumes finely bound in modern half burgundy morocco over crimson cloth. In crisp clean condition throughout, a very fine set.
Livre (s) IX, X, XI and XII, each containing two motets as follows. IX: Confitebimur Tibi Deus (33 p.); Deprofondis Clamavi (31 p.) // X: Exaltabo Te Deus Meus Rex (39 p.); Deus Noster Refugium Et Virtus (29 p.) // XI: Notus In Judoea Deus (38 p.); Dominus Regit Me (25 p.) // XII: Venite Exultemus Domino (36 p.); Ad Te Domine Clamabo (25 p.).
Livre (s) XIII, XIV, XV and XVI , each containing two motets as follows. XIII: Credidi Propter Quod Locutus Sum (32 p.); In Convertendo Dominus (24 p.) // XIV: Exurgat Deus (36 p.); Pange Lingua (24 p.) // XV: Exultate Justi In Domino (36 p.); Domine In Virtute Tua (26 p.) // XVI: Nisi Dominus (40 p.); Sacris Solemnis (30 p.).
A very rare set of sixteen (of forty) Motets engraved by Louis-Hector Hue (c. 1699 - 1768), including issues of varying states of the first edition as recorded by Lionel Sawkins in "A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande, " pages 35 - 43. Sawkins records a total of only 25 (mostly partial) known sets of the Motets, with our included issues and recorded number of known copies as follows: Issue 'd' - IX (4 copies), XII (2), XIV (3) and XVI (10); Issue 'e' - XI (2), XIII (0); Issue 'f' - X (1), XV (3). Only two sets (one complete, one partial) have appeared at auction in over thirty years, the most recent having been in 1995. BUC, p. 590; RISM L 312-318; not in Hirsch.
A generation younger than Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lalande was "the leading composer of the high Baroque grand motet at the French court." (James R. Anthony and Lionel Sawkins, Grove Online) At the court of Louis XIV, he became one of the four Sous-maitres de la musique de chambre in 1683 and then Surintendant de la musique de la chambre in 1689. In the last year of his life, 1726, he had many of his works performed at the new Concert Spirituel in Paris, and he was an icon of French musical life, particularly in the sacred realm. From 1700 - 1770, Parisian newspapers chronicled no fewer than 600 performances of his motets at the Concert Spirituel. "Less than six weeks after her husband's death on 18 June, Lalande's widow, Marie-Louise de Cury, obtained an exclusive privilege for 20 years to have his motets engraved and published...The rapidity with which this impressive enterprise was completed in the space of five years [begun 1729], and the elegant result...so handsomely engraved in folio, was unparalleled in France at the time and remained so for the rest of the century." (Sawkins, p. 35)
Livre (s) IX, X, XI and XII, each containing two motets as follows. IX: Confitebimur Tibi Deus (33 p.); Deprofondis Clamavi (31 p.) // X: Exaltabo Te Deus Meus Rex (39 p.); Deus Noster Refugium Et Virtus (29 p.) // XI: Notus In Judoea Deus (38 p.); Dominus Regit Me (25 p.) // XII: Venite Exultemus Domino (36 p.); Ad Te Domine Clamabo (25 p.).
Livre (s) XIII, XIV, XV and XVI , each containing two motets as follows. XIII: Credidi Propter Quod Locutus Sum (32 p.); In Convertendo Dominus (24 p.) // XIV: Exurgat Deus (36 p.); Pange Lingua (24 p.) // XV: Exultate Justi In Domino (36 p.); Domine In Virtute Tua (26 p.) // XVI: Nisi Dominus (40 p.); Sacris Solemnis (30 p.).
A very rare set of sixteen (of forty) Motets engraved by Louis-Hector Hue (c. 1699 - 1768), including issues of varying states of the first edition as recorded by Lionel Sawkins in "A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande, " pages 35 - 43. Sawkins records a total of only 25 (mostly partial) known sets of the Motets, with our included issues and recorded number of known copies as follows: Issue 'd' - IX (4 copies), XII (2), XIV (3) and XVI (10); Issue 'e' - XI (2), XIII (0); Issue 'f' - X (1), XV (3). Only two sets (one complete, one partial) have appeared at auction in over thirty years, the most recent having been in 1995. BUC, p. 590; RISM L 312-318; not in Hirsch.
A generation younger than Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lalande was "the leading composer of the high Baroque grand motet at the French court." (James R. Anthony and Lionel Sawkins, Grove Online) At the court of Louis XIV, he became one of the four Sous-maitres de la musique de chambre in 1683 and then Surintendant de la musique de la chambre in 1689. In the last year of his life, 1726, he had many of his works performed at the new Concert Spirituel in Paris, and he was an icon of French musical life, particularly in the sacred realm. From 1700 - 1770, Parisian newspapers chronicled no fewer than 600 performances of his motets at the Concert Spirituel. "Less than six weeks after her husband's death on 18 June, Lalande's widow, Marie-Louise de Cury, obtained an exclusive privilege for 20 years to have his motets engraved and published...The rapidity with which this impressive enterprise was completed in the space of five years [begun 1729], and the elegant result...so handsomely engraved in folio, was unparalleled in France at the time and remained so for the rest of the century." (Sawkins, p. 35)
Lalande, Michel-Richard de. (1657 - 1726). MOTETS DE FEU Mr. DE LA LANDE. Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roy, Maître de Musique et Compositeur Ordinaire de la Chapelle et de la Chambre de sa Majesté. LIVRE IX - XVI. . Paris: Boivin; Hue(with pasted label of Chez Mercier). [1729 - 1734]. First edition. Eight volumes in two, containing Livre(s) IX, X, XI, XII and Livre(s) XIII, XIV, XV, XVI. Large folio (27 x 37.5 cm). Engraved throughout. From the library of the French composer Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862), with his ownership stamps. Both volumes finely bound in modern half burgundy morocco over crimson cloth. In crisp clean condition throughout, a very fine set.
Livre (s) IX, X, XI and XII, each containing two motets as follows. IX: Confitebimur Tibi Deus (33 p.); Deprofondis Clamavi (31 p.) // X: Exaltabo Te Deus Meus Rex (39 p.); Deus Noster Refugium Et Virtus (29 p.) // XI: Notus In Judoea Deus (38 p.); Dominus Regit Me (25 p.) // XII: Venite Exultemus Domino (36 p.); Ad Te Domine Clamabo (25 p.).
Livre (s) XIII, XIV, XV and XVI , each containing two motets as follows. XIII: Credidi Propter Quod Locutus Sum (32 p.); In Convertendo Dominus (24 p.) // XIV: Exurgat Deus (36 p.); Pange Lingua (24 p.) // XV: Exultate Justi In Domino (36 p.); Domine In Virtute Tua (26 p.) // XVI: Nisi Dominus (40 p.); Sacris Solemnis (30 p.).
A very rare set of sixteen (of forty) Motets engraved by Louis-Hector Hue (c. 1699 - 1768), including issues of varying states of the first edition as recorded by Lionel Sawkins in "A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande, " pages 35 - 43. Sawkins records a total of only 25 (mostly partial) known sets of the Motets, with our included issues and recorded number of known copies as follows: Issue 'd' - IX (4 copies), XII (2), XIV (3) and XVI (10); Issue 'e' - XI (2), XIII (0); Issue 'f' - X (1), XV (3). Only two sets (one complete, one partial) have appeared at auction in over thirty years, the most recent having been in 1995. BUC, p. 590; RISM L 312-318; not in Hirsch.
A generation younger than Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lalande was "the leading composer of the high Baroque grand motet at the French court." (James R. Anthony and Lionel Sawkins, Grove Online) At the court of Louis XIV, he became one of the four Sous-maitres de la musique de chambre in 1683 and then Surintendant de la musique de la chambre in 1689. In the last year of his life, 1726, he had many of his works performed at the new Concert Spirituel in Paris, and he was an icon of French musical life, particularly in the sacred realm. From 1700 - 1770, Parisian newspapers chronicled no fewer than 600 performances of his motets at the Concert Spirituel. "Less than six weeks after her husband's death on 18 June, Lalande's widow, Marie-Louise de Cury, obtained an exclusive privilege for 20 years to have his motets engraved and published...The rapidity with which this impressive enterprise was completed in the space of five years [begun 1729], and the elegant result...so handsomely engraved in folio, was unparalleled in France at the time and remained so for the rest of the century." (Sawkins, p. 35)
Livre (s) IX, X, XI and XII, each containing two motets as follows. IX: Confitebimur Tibi Deus (33 p.); Deprofondis Clamavi (31 p.) // X: Exaltabo Te Deus Meus Rex (39 p.); Deus Noster Refugium Et Virtus (29 p.) // XI: Notus In Judoea Deus (38 p.); Dominus Regit Me (25 p.) // XII: Venite Exultemus Domino (36 p.); Ad Te Domine Clamabo (25 p.).
Livre (s) XIII, XIV, XV and XVI , each containing two motets as follows. XIII: Credidi Propter Quod Locutus Sum (32 p.); In Convertendo Dominus (24 p.) // XIV: Exurgat Deus (36 p.); Pange Lingua (24 p.) // XV: Exultate Justi In Domino (36 p.); Domine In Virtute Tua (26 p.) // XVI: Nisi Dominus (40 p.); Sacris Solemnis (30 p.).
A very rare set of sixteen (of forty) Motets engraved by Louis-Hector Hue (c. 1699 - 1768), including issues of varying states of the first edition as recorded by Lionel Sawkins in "A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande, " pages 35 - 43. Sawkins records a total of only 25 (mostly partial) known sets of the Motets, with our included issues and recorded number of known copies as follows: Issue 'd' - IX (4 copies), XII (2), XIV (3) and XVI (10); Issue 'e' - XI (2), XIII (0); Issue 'f' - X (1), XV (3). Only two sets (one complete, one partial) have appeared at auction in over thirty years, the most recent having been in 1995. BUC, p. 590; RISM L 312-318; not in Hirsch.
A generation younger than Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lalande was "the leading composer of the high Baroque grand motet at the French court." (James R. Anthony and Lionel Sawkins, Grove Online) At the court of Louis XIV, he became one of the four Sous-maitres de la musique de chambre in 1683 and then Surintendant de la musique de la chambre in 1689. In the last year of his life, 1726, he had many of his works performed at the new Concert Spirituel in Paris, and he was an icon of French musical life, particularly in the sacred realm. From 1700 - 1770, Parisian newspapers chronicled no fewer than 600 performances of his motets at the Concert Spirituel. "Less than six weeks after her husband's death on 18 June, Lalande's widow, Marie-Louise de Cury, obtained an exclusive privilege for 20 years to have his motets engraved and published...The rapidity with which this impressive enterprise was completed in the space of five years [begun 1729], and the elegant result...so handsomely engraved in folio, was unparalleled in France at the time and remained so for the rest of the century." (Sawkins, p. 35)