Forqueray
Forqueray is the surname of a family of baroque French musicians and composers, and may refer to one of these articles below: * Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745), composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba, father of Jean-Baptiste. * Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699–1782), composer and player of the viola da gamba, son of Antoine. * Nicolas Gilles Forqueray (1703–1761), composer, second son of Antoine * Michel II Forqueray (1681–1757), composer and organist, brother of Antoine See also * Charles Fouqueray Charles Dominique Fouqueray (Le Mans, 23 April 1869 – 28 March 1956) was a French painter.Nadine André-Pallois, ''Les Peintres français et indochinois'', 1997, p. 108. La première chose que l'on remarque lorsque l'on étudie les travaux de C ...

Antoine Forqueray
Antoine Forqueray (September 1672 – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba. Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers which included his sons Jean-Baptiste (1699–1782) and Nicolas Gilles (1703–1761) as well as his brother Michel (1681–1757). Career at Versailles Forqueray's exceptional talents as a player led to his performing before Louis XIV at the age of ten. The king was so pleased with him that he arranged for Forqueray to have music lessons at his own expense and then, seven years later, in 1689, named him ''musicien ordinaire'' of ''La chambre du Roy'', a position Forqueray held until the end of his life. To supplement his official income he gave lucrative private lessons to members of the royal family and the aristocracy. In Louis XIV's later years the normal routine of concerts at the court of Versailles was augmented by Mme de Maintenon. She arranged almost daily performances in her apartments by such musicians ...
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Jean-Baptiste Forqueray
__NOTOC__ Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (3 April 1699 – 28 June 1782), the son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer. Forqueray was born in Paris. He is most famous today for his 1747 publication of twenty-nine pieces for viol and continuo which he attributed to his father (except for three, for which he himself took credit). In the ''avertissement'' he states that he was responsible for the bass line (thus the figures as well) and the viol fingerings. Stylistically, they are very much influenced by Italian music and belong to the generation of Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764) and Jean-Pierre Guignon (1702–1774). Modern violists regard these '' Pieces de viole'' as the most virtuosic music for the instrument. Paolo Pandolfo and Lorenz Duftschmid have both recorded the complete publication. Forqueray published the same pieces for harpsichord, possibly in arrangements made by his wife Marie-Rose, in 1749 (ed. Colin Tilney, Paris, 1970) but remarkably d ...
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