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Raphael Courteville, Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo.

Despite his French name, Courteville was an English organist and composer who published many songs and instrumental pieces between 1685 and 1705. His Sonata in C major was composed by 1695, when the recorder part appears in a tutor published by John Walsh. The work is written in an Anglicized Italian style, similar to the familiar sonatas by Gottfried Finger and Daniel Purcell from the same decade.

A NEW ESSAY FROM INSTANT HARMONY:

Thiemo Wind, Jean de Chezeaulx and the Early History of Paulus Potter’s “Bull” (1647)

On 27 May 1664, an Amsterdam newspaper announced that three paintings by Paulus Potter would be auctioned the following day at the tavern of a certain Jean de Chezeaulx. The largest of the three was undoubtedly Potter’s most famous painting, The Bull. The second depicted the mythological Europa on the back of Jupiter disguised as a bull, of which only the bull’s head has survived, in Dublin. The smallest was probably a panel that now hangs in Munich, Peasant Family with Livestock. In a new piece of detective work, the music and art historian Thiemo Wind attempts to answer the question: was De Chezeaulx merely providing a platform for the auction, or was he himself the earliest owner of the three Potter paintings?

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