A low seventh string was supposedly added in France to the bass viol by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe ( c. 1640 – 1690 ), whose students included the French gamba virtuoso and composer Marin Marais.

Composers such as Marin Marais, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Schenck, Antoine Forqueray, and Carl Friedrich Abel wrote virtuoso music for it.

Composers like Jean-Baptise Barrière, Georg Phillipp Telemann and Marin Marais wrote solo-and ensemble pieces for treble or pardessus.

Image: Viol7 ABouys MMarais1704Fr. jpg | Portrait of French composer and viola da gamba master Marin Marais, by André Bouys, 1704.

The 1991 feature film Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings of the World ) by Alain Corneau, based on the lives of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, prominently featured these composers ' music for the viola da gamba and brought viol music to new audiences.

* August 15 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer ( b. 1656 )

* May 31 – Marin Marais, French composer and viol player ( d. 1728 )

* Their story is the basis for the opera Alcyone by the French composer Marin Marais

But his most popular book is probably Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings in the World ), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau.

There is also an opera Sémélé, on the same theme, by Marin Marais.

The use of folk songs and dance melodies and motifs in classical music to inject vitality and excitement, is of course as old as " La Folia " and Marin Marais ' " Bells of St. Genevieve " (" Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris "), but the attempt to give music a sense of place was novel to the Historical particularism of late nineteenth century Romanticism.

* Marin Marais ( 1656-1728 ), French Baroque music composer

Marin Marais by André Bouys, 1704.

Marin Marais ( 31 May 1656, Paris15 August 1728, Paris ) was a French composer and viol player.

As with Sainte-Colombe, little of Marin Marais ' personal life is known after he reached adulthood.

Marin Marais married a Parisian, Catherine d ' Amicourt, on 21 September 1676.

Viol part of Premiers couplets ( sic ) des Folies d ' Espagne from the Marin Marais ' deuxième livre de pièces de viole for viola da gamba and figured bass

* Marin Marais, Sonnerie de Ste-Genevieve du Mont, Suite en Do majeur ( C major ), Suite en Re majeur ( D major ); performers: N. Harnoncourt, A. Harnoncourt, L. Stastny, H. Tachezi ; recording label: Harmonia Mundi, France, no.

* Marin Marais, Les Folies d ' Espagne, La reveuse, L ' arabesque, Le badinage, Sonnerie de Ste-Genevieve du Mont ; performers: Jordi Savall ( Bass viola da gamba ), Pierre Hantaï ( Harpsichord ), Rolf Lislevand ( Theorbo ); recording label: Alia Vox, 9821 ; 2002.

* Marin Marais: Pièces de viole du Second Livre, 1701 ( Le Parnasse de la Viole, vol.

* Marin Marais: Suitte d ' un Goût Étranger, Pièces de viole du Livre IV, 1717 ( Le Parnasse de la Viole, vol.

* Marin Marais ~ Pièces de viole des Cinq Livres ~ J. Savall, C. Coin, T. Koopman, H. Smith, A. Gallet ~ Alia Vox AVSA 9872

* Marin Marais Unedited Music from Scottish Manuscripts Volume 1

* Marin Marais Unedited Music from Scottish Manuscripts Volume 2

The role of Marin Marais is played by Gérard Depardieu as an old man and by Guillaume Depardieu as a young man.

* 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress ( d. 1971 )

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1936 – Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist ( d. 1997 )

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

Hilaire Marin Rouelle ( February 1718, Mathieu – April 7, 1779, Paris ) was a French chemist.

* 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

* 1968 – Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone ( Il Divo )

The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Interstate 580 which connects Marin and Contra Costa counties, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge on Interstate 80 which connects Alameda and San Francisco counties, the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge on Highway 92 which connects Alameda and San Mateo counties and the Dumbarton Bridge on Highway 84 which connects Alameda and San Mateo counties.

* 1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician ( d. 1648 )

* April 11 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian scientist ( b. 1568 )

* July 13 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian

* May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.

* September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician ( b. 1588 )

* August 7 – Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

* October 2 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian scientist ( d. 1626 )

* September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French theologian ( d. 1648 )

* May 2 – Marin Držić, Croatian writer ( b. 1508 )

* June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer ( b. 1600 )

* April 18 – In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them.

* April 18 – Marin Falier, Doge of Venice ( executed ; b. 1285 )