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Marin Marais ( 31 May 1656 , Paris – 15 August 1728 , Paris) was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lully and of the Viol player Monsieur De Sainte-Colombe . He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles . He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725 . He was a master of the Viola Da Gamba , and the leading French composer of viol music. He wrote five books of "Pièces de viole" for the instrument, generally suites with Basso Continuo . These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" ( Hubert Le Blanc , 1740 ). His other works include operas, " Alcyone " ( 1706 ) being noted for its tempest scene. Similar to Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais' personal life was known after he reached adulthood. Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine Damicourt , on 21 September 1676. They had 19 children together. He featured as a central character in the film '' Tous Les Matins Du Monde '' (1991), which is an atmospheric meticulously imagined life of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Marais' music figured prominently in that film. One of his longer and most famous works, '' Sonnerie De Ste-Geneviève Du Mont-de-Paris '' ( 1723 ) that was featured in that film appears as well in an electronic version in the cult classic Liquid Sky . Facsimiles of all five books of Marais' "Pièces de viole" are published by Éditions J.M. Fuzeau . |