Biography
Corrette, a French composer, arranger, and teacher, produced numerous instructional methods over the course of his life. Motets, operas, ballets, concertos, symphonies, sonatas, and works for harpsichord and organ number among his output. His professional activity extended across roughly seventy-five years, tracing shifting musical styles, conventions, and attitudes in considerable detail. Roughly seventeen of the methods remain, each one supplying direct, usable instruction in the techniques required for performance and study. Because his pieces draw extensively on popular melodies, they offer a substantial record of historical and aesthetic insight.