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Pierre Thierry
Pierre Thierry (1604–1665) was the founder of the Thierry dynasty of organ builders of Paris, France. Biography Thierry was born in Paris. He was the son of a Shoemaking, cobbler. At the age of seventeen he became a servant of the organist Florent Bienvenu. He apprenticed with the best known organists at that time, first Valéran de Héman and then Crespin Carlier, with whom he became a partner for a while. He assisted Carlier at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs between 1634 and 1635, when he branched out on his own. In 1636 he married Marguerite Leclerc, sister of the organist at the Grands Augustins church. She gave him a son in 1642 who was named Charles in honor of his godfather, Charles Racquet, the famous organist of Notre Dame de Paris. With the successive deaths or retirement of Crespin Carlier, Pierre Le Pescheur (1636) and Valéran de Héman (1641) Pierre Thierry became able to dominate the Parisian market. He worked in Paris at Notre Dame, Saint-Jean and Saint-Gervais, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
