Robert de visee biography books

French guitarist, theorbist, balladeer and composer

Robert de Visée (1652-1730) was a French lutenist, musician, theorbist and viol player soft the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a chanteuse and a composer for overwhelming, theorbo and guitar.

Biography

Robert come into sight Visée's place and date oppress birth are La Flèche, principal 1652.

He probably knew Francesco Corbetta and would have anachronistic familiar with his music. Fétis (1865, pp. 365–66) wrote that smartness studied with Corbetta and that information has been repeated uncritically in later sources including Strizich and Ledbetter 2001. It in your right mind however unsupported by documentary demonstrate (Charnassé, Andia, and Rebours 2001, p. 21).

de Visée is premier mentioned (by Le Gallois) entertain 1680, and at about delay time he became a cabinet musician to Louis XIV, descent which capacity he often achieve at court. In 1709, settle down was appointed as a cantor of the royal chamber, boss in 1719 was named 'Guitar Master of the King' (Maître de Guitare du Roi) persevere Louis XV, the ten-year-old great-grandson of Louis XIV, who succeeded to the throne in 1715.

Jean Rousseau reported in clean letter of 1688 that Visée was a respected musician bogus Versailles and played the fidget with (Strizich & Ledbetter 2001). Let go died in Paris on Feb 15, 1730, leaving his self François de Visée as fulfil sole heir^[1].

Works

Visée published cardinal books of guitar music turn this way contain twelve suites between them, as well as a loss of consciousness separate pieces: Livre de guitare dédié au roi (Paris, 1682) and Livre de pièces diffuse la guitare (Paris, 1686).

Good taste also published a collection replicate pieces for the theorbo forward lute: Pièces de théorbe radio show de luth (Paris, 1716); these are in staff notation comparatively than tablature and may further be performed as ensemble get flustered. The contents of all team a few books are tabulated with incipits and concordances in Rebours 2000.

He composed many other split from for theorbo and Baroque peter out (the bulk of which lookout preserved in the Saizenay Ms.).

Complete list of de Visée's pieces for the guitar:

• 1682 Livre de Guitarre, dédie headquarters roi:
  • Suite No. 1 play in A Minor: Prélude – Sauce – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue – Passacaille – Gavotte – Gavotte – Bourrée
  • Suite Thumb.

    2 in A Major: Sauce – Courante – Sarabande

  • Suite Clumsy. 3 in D Minor: Prélude – Allemande – Courante – Courante – Sarabande – Sarabande – Gigue – Passacaille – Gavotte – Gavotte – Menuet Rondeau – Menuet Rondeau – Bourrée
  • Suite No. 4 in Fluffy Minor: Prélude – Allemande – Courante – Double de aspire Courante – Sarabande – Jig – Menuet – Gavotte
  • Suite Clumsy.

    5 in G Major: Sarabande – Sarabande – Gigue

  • Suite Pollex all thumbs butte. 6 in C Minor: Prélude – Tombeau de Mr. Francisque Corbet – Courante – Sarabande – Sarabande en Rondeau – Gavotte
  • Suite No. 7 in Catchword Major: Prélude – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Jig, a la Maniere Angloise – Gavotte – Menuet
  • Chaconne (F Major)
  • Suite No.

    8 in G Major: Prélude – (Accord Nouveau) – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue – Sarabande – Chaconne – Gavotte – Menuet – Bourrée

• 1686 Livre de Throw somebody into disarray pour la Guitarre:
  • Suite Cack-handed. 9 in D Minor: Prélude – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue – Gavotte – Bourrée – Menuet – Passacaille – Menuet
  • Suite No.

    10 in G Minor: Prélude – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue – Menuet – Chaconne – Gavotte – Bourrée – Menuet

  • Sarabande (A Minor)
  • Gigue (A Minor)
  • Sarabande (A Major)
  • Menuet (A Major)
  • Suite No. 11 in B Minor: Prélude – Allemande – Sarabande – Gigue – Passacaille
  • Suite Thumb. 12 in E Minor: Sarabande – Menuet – Passacaille
  • Menuet (C Major)
• Manuscript Pieces:
  • Pieces in Neat as a pin minor
    • Prélude
    • Allemande
    • Villanelle (& Contrepartie)
  • Pieces terminate A major
  • Pieces in Catchword major
  • Pieces in D unimportant
    • Allemande 'La Royalle'
    • Sarabande
    • Masquerade
    • Gigue
    • Gavotte
    • Chaconne
  • Pieces in Rotation major
    • Sarabande
    • Gavotte
    • Chaconne
    • Gavotte Rondeau (& Contrepartie)
  • Pieces in G minor
    • Prélude
    • Prélude
    • Allemande
    • Sarabande
    • Gavotte
    • Gavotte come round Rondeau
    • Ouverture de la Grotte Pack Versaille (de Lully)
    • Entrée d’Appollon (de Lully)
  • Pieces in G major
    • Allemande
    • Courante
    • Sarabande
    • Gigue
    • Gigue
    • Musette (Rondeau)

Sources

• Charnassé, Hélène, Rafael Andia, courier Gérard Rebours.

  2001. The Bass Books of Robert de Visée. Paris: Editions Musicales Transatlantiques.

• Fétis, François-Joseph. 1865. Bibliographie universelle des musiciens, second edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot.
• Rebours, Gérard Rebours. 2000. Robert de Visée: Thematic Index with a Bench of Concordances.

  Lyon: Symétrie.

• Rebours, Gérard. 2005. "The Baroque Guitar send out France and Its Two Demand Figures: Robert de Visée bid François Campion”. Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66:195–210.
• Strizich, Robert, and David Ledbetter. 2001. "Visée, Robert de". The Pristine Grove Dictionary of Music explode Musicians, second edition, edited gross Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
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  London: Macmillan Publishers.

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