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Jacques Gallot
12+ albums
baroqueClassicallutefrenchbaroque classical composer
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Jacques Gallot, known in seventeenth-century and modern scholarship as Gallot le vieux or Gallot de Paris, was a French lutenist and composer active during the middle decades of the seventeenth century. Authority consensus situates him broadly between circa 1600 and the later 1680s, with his activity firmly associated with Paris. He belongs to a documented musical family: he was the brother of Alexandre Gallot, himself active as a lutenist, and the epithet le vieux serves to distinguish him from other bearers of the Gallot name in later sources. Gallot’s historical presence is anchored above all by a substantial printed lute book, Pièces de luth composées sur differens modes, issued in Paris by the publisher H. Bonneuil. This collection, transmitted in French lute tablature, preserves a wide-ranging sequence of dance movements and character pieces, several of which carry distinctive titles, including allemandes, sarabandes, menuets, and a concluding set of Folies d’Espagne mises par l’autheur. The print constitutes the principal secure witness for Gallot’s output and establishes him as a composer whose works circulated in authoritative engraved form rather than solely through manuscript transmission. Beyond this printed source, Gallot’s name also appears in later scholarly transcriptions and discussions of the French lute repertory, confirming continued awareness of his music within musicological literature. RECORDINGS (select, documentary) A modern point of access to Ga
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Lute Recital: Liddell, Catherine - Gallot, J. / Launay, H. De (La Belle Voilee - 17Th Century French Lute Music)
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Style Brisé - Gaultier & The French Lute School
Jacques de Gallot: Pièces de Luth (Dit le vieux gallot de Paris)
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Lute and Theorbo Music: Held, Joachim - Gallot, J. / Visee, R. De / Mouton, C. / Couperin, F. / Gaultier, E. (Musique Pour Le Roi)
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Marin Marais - Pièces de Viole
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Relic
Lute Music From Scotland and France
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J.S. Bach: Chaconne - Baroque Lute Recital
La Belle Homicide
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Rolf Lislevand, La Belle Homicide: Manuscrit barbe
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Les luthistes français au XVIIe siècle
Portrait