An imaginary tale of misfortune and sorrow
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and the astonishing rhetorical power in her Trio Sonata in G Minor When Brossard was on his way back to Strasbourg in 1695 from one of his visits to Paris, he travelled with four trio sonatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre in his baggage. “She was so kind as to lend me her originals in order to copy them. They are enchanting, and if anybody needs evidence, he will find four individual parts in the same folder”. The music is now preserved in t