Grande Écurie

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Grande Écurie

French music organization

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wind instrument
In western Europe
…reign of Louis XIV, the Grande Écurie (an ensemble that provided music for royal occasions) cultivated wind instruments and contained within their group the finest players and wind-instrument makers. At a different level, amateur musicians included the famous English diarist Samuel Pepys, whose love of the recorder was matched only…
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…reign of Louis XIV, the Grande Écurie (an ensemble that provided music for royal occasions) cultivated wind instruments and contained within their group the finest players and wind-instrument makers. At a different level, amateur musicians included the famous English diarist Samuel Pepys, whose love of the recorder was matched only…
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