Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer, lutenist and theorbist active between 1665 and 1692.[1][2]
Biography
editCharles Hurel was a musician and eminent professor from a prosperous family of Parisian luthiers[3] which included some of the main instrumental factors of Paris in the 17th century.[1]
He seems to have been the only member of his family who was also a composer.[4]
He was listed as "ordinary officer of the Academy of Music" in 1684 and as a professor of theorbo in Paris.[4]
A document of 7 April 1676, which gives his signature and that of several other members of his family, describes him as a "lute player".[1]
Among his pupils were Marie Du Port de la Balme and Mademoiselle de Lionne.[5]
Namesake
editCharles Hurel had a namesake, who died in 1648,[6] who was a master painter and sculptor, active among others in the realization of ceilings painted "à la française".[7]
Works
edit- Tablature de luth et de théorbe (c. 1675[8] or 1680[9][10])
- Theorbo pieces by Charles Hurel, together with lute and theorbo pieces by many other composers can be found in the manuscrit Vaudry de Saizenay (c. 1699) housed at the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon.[11][12][13]
Discography
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c David Ledbetter, Grove Music Online, mentioned by Oxford Index
- ^ Charles Hurel, data.bnf.fr
- ^ Lute Society of America Quarterly, Volume 43, The Society, 2008, (p. 38).
- ^ a b c The Journal of the Lute Society, Volumes 35 à 39, Lute Society, 1997 (p. 189).
- ^ a b Claudia Knispel, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Lautenistinnen und Gitaristinnen der Renaissance und des Barock, Kassel University Press, 2014, p. 79.
- ^ Archives Nationales - Minutes et répertoires du notaire Olivier Gaultier
- ^ Alexandre Gady, Poutres et solives peintes. Le plafond « à la française », Revue de l'Art, Volume 122 , 1998, (p. 13).
- ^ Claudia Knispel, (opcit), (p. 183)
- ^ Guitar and Lute Handbook, Schott, 2003, p. 203.
- ^ Albert James Diaz, Ann S. Davis, Guide to Reprints, Microcard Editions, 1996, (p. 443).
- ^ Mémoire vive - Patrimoine numérisé de Besançon
- ^ Catalogue de la bibliothèque du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
- ^ (in Spanish) Fuentes barroco
External links
edit- Prélude - Charles Hurel on YouTube
- Charles Hurel on Musicalics
