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His music displayed a variety of stylistic innovations and was considerably different from his contemporaries' works. A provincial composer, Moyreau did not achieve much fame during his lifetime and is almost completely forgotten today. His most known and most frequently performed piece is
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from books I-V are particularly notable for their length and variety of included pieces. A single suite may contain as many as 26 movements (which is far more than in any other suite ever composed), usually beginning with an introductory
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into an old family of the city. He became organist at Orléans Collégiale Saint-Aignan in
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followed by several standard dance movements. The movements that come after these are usually pieces with descriptive titles, not unlike
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Moyreau musicien d’Orléans (1700–1774) et sa famille', , Typewriting, 1984, 12 p.
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