Charles Bocquet (composer)

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Charles Bocquet , partially Latinized Carolus Bocquet (* 2nd half of the 16th century, † between 1606 and 1615 ), was a French lutenist and composer .

Life

He came from a Parisian lute player family. His father Julien Bocquet († 1592) was also a chamberlain of the French King Henry III. Charles Bocquet lived in Pont-à-Mousson , he was first mentioned in 1594 when he was involved as a lute player in Nancy at the court of the Duke of Lorraine in a ballet for the carnival.

In the years 1599 and 1600 he was in the service of Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate in Heidelberg . In 1606 Bocquet was back in Pont-à-Mousson, from where he was invited to Nancy as a composer and lute player for the wedding of Margrave Heinrich II with Margarita Gonzaga. After that, Bocquet was no longer mentioned; in 1615 he died.

Compositions for lute by him are preserved in

Anna / Marguerite Bocquet may have been a descendant. She was a lutenist and probably also a composer in Paris.

literature

  • André Soris, Monique Rollin (ed.): Œvre de Bocquet (= Corpus des luthistes françaises) . CNRS, Paris 1972.
  • Lionel de La Laurencie: Les luthistes Charles Bocquet, Antoine Francisque et Jean-Baptiste Besard . In: Revue de musicologie . Volume 7, 18/19, 1926, pp. 69-77, 126-133. Digitized
  • Josef Zuth : Handbook of the lute and guitar . Vienna 1926, reprint 1978, p. 45.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition ibid. 1968, volume 2, p. 61 ( German song: Not long I went for a walk ) and 63 f. (French tablature from 1608 in the Bautzen City and District Library).
personal data
SURNAME Bocquet, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bocquet, Carolus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH between 1606 and 1615