Sinfonia
Perrault, Le Vau, and Le Brun, East Front of the Louvre (1667).
The Partita in D Minor is a six-movement work which clearly evinces the influence of Bach and Handel, although no identical dance sequence is found in either of the baroque masters' keyboard compositions.
The sinfonia, in the French style, was conceived as a majestic façade for the work as a whole.