Joseph-Hector Fiocco

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Joseph-Hector Fiocco (Brussels, 27 January 1703 – Brussels, 1741) was a Flemish composer, violinist, and conductor active in Brussels during the first half of the eighteenth century, a period in which the Southern Netherlands stood at a crossroads between French courtly taste, Italian virtuosity, and local contrapuntal tradition. Born into a prominent musical family, he was the son of the Venetian-born composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco, who had settled in Brussels and served as maître de chapelle at the cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula. Joseph-Hector’s early training took place within this cultivated environment, and contemporary accounts suggest that he also pursued advanced studies in Italy, absorbing the Italian instrumental and vocal idioms that would later shape his style. By the 1720s Fiocco had established himself as a respected musician in Brussels, active as a violinist, composer, and teacher. His reputation culminated in his appointment as maître de chapelle of the Brussels court chapel, succeeding his father and assuming responsibility for music at one of the most important ecclesiastical and ceremonial institutions in the Austrian Netherlands. In this role he supplied sacred music for court and cathedral use while also cultivating instrumental genres that reflected the increasingly international outlook of Brussels musical life. Fiocco’s surviving works reveal a composer fluent in multiple idioms. His sacred music combines solid contrapuntal workmanship with

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Fiocco: Lamentationes Hebdomadæ Sanctæ

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Fiocco, J.H.: 24 Pieces De Clavecin, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

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Fiocco: Petits motets, Vol. 2

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Takako Nishizaki Plays Suzuki Evergreens, Vol. 5

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Bits And Pieces

Fiocco: Petits motets

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Fiocco: Pièces de clavevin

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The Harmonius Blacksmith

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Violin Encores: Perlman

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J.-H. Fiocco: Lamentations du Jeudi Saint

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Intermezzo

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Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Fiocco: Missa Solemnis: Ave Maria; Homo Quidam

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