Thursday, July 4, 2024

July 4 - Louis-Claude Daquin (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 4th are found here: Cathy Berberian (2019), Flor Peeters (2020), Stephen Foster (2021), Gertrude Lawrence; Oscar the First, King of Sweden (2022), and Stephen Foster (2023)

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Louis-Claude Daquin (4 July 1694 – 15 June 1772) was a French composer and organist whose settings of French Christmas songs (Noëls) are still in the active parish organ repertoire.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm Dreaming of a French Christmas

I’m sure Daquin, who wrote Noëls,

Knew that Christmas music sells.

And they're still there up on the shelf

Beside the Virgin and the Elf,

A place of honor earned by dint

Of being, even now, in print.

 

 

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