When a French Baroque composer invented POLYCHORDS 200 YEARS EARLY!

Jean-Féry Rebel (1666 - 1747) composed his ballet ‘Les Elemens’ in 1737. The first movement, from which the music in this video comes, is an unsettling depiction of chaos and feels as shocking as the famous polychord in Stravinsky’s ballet ‘The Rite of Spring’, written nearly 200 years later. Whereas Stravinsky’s ballet provoked a riot in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris on 29th May 1913, Rebel’s score was apparently greeted enthusiastically by a large audience at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on 17th March 1738. MUSICAL EXCERPTS USED IN THIS VIDEO Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens: simphonie nouvelle pour ballet 1. Le Cahos. Musica Antiqua Köln Reinhard Goebel, conductor links - Original full recording - #polychords #baroque #musicprofessor ⦿ SUPPORT US ON PATREON ⦿ ⦿ SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL ⦿ Edited by Ian Coulter ( ) Produced and directed by Ian Coulter