The Arts and the Hours (Rameau)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764) was one of the most important French composers of the 18th century. The Arts and the Hours is taken from a scene in his last opera Les Boréades in which Polymnia, the muse of poetry and music, enters to aid Abaris in his quest to marry Alphise, the Queen of Bactria.

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Type: String Quartet
Tags: baroque, new-arrivals, wedding-music

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