Joseph-Hector Fiocco

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Joseph-Hector Fiocco
Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels, Fiocco's place of work

Joseph-Hector Fiocco (born January 20, 1703 in Brussels ; † June 22, 1741 ibid) was a violinist and composer from the Habsburg Netherlands .

Life

His father Pietro Antonio Fiocco , himself a composer, came from Venice and settled in Brussels in 1682, which was then the capital of the Habsburg Netherlands. Joseph-Hector was tutored by his father and his older half-brother, he had a total of 15 siblings. He became a violinist and choirmaster at the Antwerp Cathedral . In 1737 he returned to Brussels and took over the post of choirmaster at St. Michael and Gudula . He died only four years later.

Fiocco was the most important Flemish composer in the first half of the 18th century. His music combines the Italian and French styles, it already contains elements of the gallant style . Fiocco was considered a universal talent, besides his musical activity he was a teacher of ancient Greek and Latin and was involved in violin making .

Works (selection)

  • Numerous religious vocal works: motets , masses , "leçons de ténèbres", several lamentationes ("funeral music") for Holy Week. They were not printed during his lifetime and have come down to us as manuscripts.
  • Pièces de clavecin op. 1 (Brussels 1730): Suites for harpsichord , partly in the Italian and partly in the French style, based on François Couperin .
  • Fiocco's best-known work is an allegro for violin with piano or ensemble accompaniment, which is in various versions ; it is the arrangement of a movement of the first harpsichord suite from the Pièces de clavecin op.1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 81 .
  2. ↑ Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , p 234, Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7
  3. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1862) p. 255
  4. ^ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical sources-lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900) p. 455
personal data
SURNAME Fiocco, Joseph-Hector
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1741
Place of death Brussels