Balthazar Richard
Balthazar Richard (* around 1600 in Mons ; † after 1660 probably in Brussels ) was a composer and Zinkenist of the Baroque.
A document from 1660 certifies Balthazar Richard, a forty-year membership in the Brussels court orchestra of the regent Isabell of Austria . Richard probably composed a lot, but very few of his works have survived. The library of the Portuguese King John IV , which was destroyed during the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, owned numerous manuscripts and prints by Richard. In 1631 his "Litaniae beatissimae Mariae Virginis Laurentanae" were printed by the Pierre Phalèse publishing house in Antwerp. In a list that belonged to the contemporary and composer Jean Tichon , a seventeen-part mass and about 20 other works were noted. The Codex Rost contains, among other things, a canzona for violin, zinc and bc
Richard's name is linked to a scandal in which he got his pupil Jean Corbisier in 1657 the post of "Maitre de Chant" at the Notre-Dame du Sablon church through an examination fraud. The matter occupied the courts until after 1660.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , p 212-213, Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis; Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique, 1864
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richard, Balthazar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baroque composer and tinkerist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mons |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1660 |