Jacques Gallot

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Jacques Gallot (called Vieux Gallot de Paris : Jacques Gallot the Elder) (* unknown; † after 1690 in Paris ) was a French lutenist and composer .

Life

Gallot comes from a Parisian family of lutenists and composers. He learned from Ennemond Gaultier .

About 100 works by Gallot have survived, some in a printed collection, as well as in 15 manuscript sources, one of which was created after 1686. In the print of 1682 pieces are partly signed with the name vieux Gallot . The print also includes instructions on how to play the lute and a table with 12 decorative symbols and fingerings . The titles of his pieces often refer to female characters: La Fontange , La Montespan , but also courtly characters in Tombeaux : Turenne , Condé , Madame . Robert de Visée dedicated a tombeau to him posthumously .

His brother Antoine and a nephew, who was called Gallot le jeune , were also known as musicians, and a brother Alexandre Gallot (approx. 1625 to 1684) is also known.

In 1927, Ottorino Respighi transcribed a piece by Gallot in the La colomba movement of his suite Gli Uccelli .

Compositions

  • Pieces de luth composées sur différens mode . E. Pohlmann, Paris 1670 or 1682 [reprinted 1980]
  • Gallot's oeuvres , 1987
  • Pieces for baroque lute . Munich: Tree Edition, 1999

literature

  • Hannu Annala, Heiki Matlik: Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers . Pacific, MO Mel Bay, 2007, p. 34
  • Thierry Favier: Gallot, Jacques , in: Music in Past and Present (MGG), 2002, Vol. 7, Col. 471–472
  • Monique Rollin: Oeuvres des Gallot [Musique imprimée] , édition et transcription by Monique Rollin, recherches biographiques by Catherine Massip. Paris: Center national de la recherche scientifique, 1987 (see bnf)
  • David Ledbetter: Oeuvres des Gallot , in: Early Music , 1981, pp. 581-583
  • Clare Maureen Callahan: Jacques Gallot's Pieces de luth: a style study and critical edition . 1963. Thesis (MA). Ohio State University, 1963
  • H. Radke: Comments on the Gallot lutenist family , in: Die Musikforschung , 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The personal details are incomplete and contradictory, in the following according to MGG, Warszawski and Annala
  2. ^ Thierry Favier: Gallot, Jacques , in: MGG, 2002, Vol. 7, Col. 471-472
  3. ↑ Lemma Antoine Gallot (around 1590-1647) , in: Propylaeen, World of Music: the composers; a lexicon in 5 volumes , Berlin 1989, p. 382f
  4. ↑ Gli Ucelli in Klassika
personal data
SURNAME Gallot, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century
Place of death Paris