the complete music for organ and harpsichord-Louis Marchand s fiery temperament is well documented. It led to a series of encounters with his peers that included shirking a competition with JS Bach being sued for domestic violence being sacked for impertinence towards Louis XIV and an attempt to defame the priest-organist of Saint-Barthélemy Paris a position that had been bequeathed to Marchand by the outgoing organist his father-in-law Robert Denis
