Le roi s’amuse – Music from the Courts of Louis XIV and XV

Known as the ’Sun King’, Louis XIV was famed for his lavish court at Versailles, and for his generosity as a patron of the arts. His great-grandson, Louis XV, was nicknamed ’Louis the Beloved’ and showed similar support for musicians – partly thanks to the musical tastes of his wife, Queen Marie, and his influential mistress, Madame de Pompadour.