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Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
This ensemble, founded in 1982 by Marc
Minkowski, has exerted no small influence on
the revival of interest in Baroque music and its
more tradition-based performance in France. Les
Musiciens du Louvre have not, however, narrowed
their artistic activity – aside from Baroque music
(G. F. Handel, H. Purcell, J.-P. Rameau), they
draw upon Classical works (F. J. Haydn and
W. A. Mozart), as well as music from later periods,
with a particular predilection for 19 th -century
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French music: H. Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique,
Nuits d’été), J. Offenbach (La belle Hélène,
La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein) and even
G. Bizet (L’Arlésienne – Incidental Music) and
G. Fauré. A significant place in the ensemble’s
repertoire is occupied by operatic works, which
the musicians present frequently and successfully
at music festivals (among others, C. Monteverdi’s
L’Incoronazione di Poppea and W. A. Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte in Aix-en-Provence) and opera
theaters (C. W. Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
and J.-P. Rameau’s Platée at the Opéra de Paris,