Classical piece from a video on Versailles

[Handel]

Who could be the composer? Even if I listened to a lot of baroque and classical music, I can't recognize the style of any composer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93EhIGlVS0


Btw, nice aerial view of Versailles gardens at 1:29.

[knight66]

I may be off-beam, but I think it is a pastiche piece written just for the film.

Mike

[Great Gable]

I may be off-beam, but I think it is a pastiche piece written just for the film.

Mike

Sounds like that to me as well - the tubular bells rather give it away.

[knight66]

I was having to play it quietly as the family is asleep and the computer is routed via the Hi-Fi, but I missed the bells! Well, at least no one has said, of course, it is such and such by some obscure classical master or other.

Mike

[lukeottevanger]

I was having to play it quietly as the family is asleep and the computer is routed via the Hi-Fi, but I missed the bells! Well, at least no one has said, of course, it is such and such by some obscure classical master or other.

I'm surprised, Mike, that you don't recognise the work of your namesake, Michel Vieuxchamp, one of the lesser-known composers at the court of the Sun King, and a specialist in tubular bells. Also that you haven't kept up with the latest HIP research - it seems that tubular bells, along with Ondes Martenot, are viable, historically accurate members of the basso continuo line-up.

[knight66]

Methinks that to at least some extent you are pulling my leg.

Mike

[lukeottevanger]

Methinks that to at least some extent you are pulling my leg.

Mike

Really?

He's better known under the Anglicised version of his name, of course....

[knight66]

Yes, you fielded that nicely. But...are you saying that piece was really by you know who, or was that just another part of the leg-pull?

Mike

[pjme]

A wild guess :Jean Françaix? "Si Versailles m'était conté"....? ( the 1955 film)..

it is not a baroque piece : c'est "à la manière de " ,and could have been written somewhere between 1920 and 1950....yesterday!

Peter

[Szykneij]

I'm surprised, Mike, that you don't recognise the work of your namesake, Michel Vieuxchamp, one of the lesser-known composers at the court of the Sun King, and a specialist in tubular bells. Also that you haven't kept up with the latest HIP research - it seems that tubular bells, along with Ondes Martenot, are viable, historically accurate members of the basso continuo line-up.