Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the prelude of his Te Deum H.146, Marche en rondeau, which has been used as the th
A recently discovered portrait, inscribed by the artist as representing Charpentier, but dating circa 1750, about 40 years after his death.
The Imaginary Invalid
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The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Konstantin Stanislavski as Argan in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1913.
The Imaginary Invalid, drawing by Honoré Daumier, c. 1857.