Biography
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Born
1575
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Born In
Lyon, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Died
11 December 1651 (aged 76)
Ennemond Gaultier (c.1575–1651) was a French lutenist and composer. He was one of the masters of the seventeenth-century French lute school.
Gaultier was born in Villette, Dauphiné. He worked first in Lyon, and in 1620 he became valet to the Queen Mother Marie de' Medici and court lutenist in Paris. It is possible that he was a pupil of René Mezangeau. In 1631, he retired to Nèves where he lived until his death on 17th December 1651.
Together with his cousin Denis Gaultier he published a collection of lute compositions, however, assignment of the authorship to one of them is difficult. This is similar also for other collections where works appear under name "Gaultier". These works had a great influence on the development of lute music over the following years.
Among his most famous works are "Le tombeau de Mezangeau" (allemande), "La belle homicide" (courante), and "Les canaries du vieux Gaultier", which became cornerstones of the repertoire of French Baroque lute. The first of these, published in 1638, seems to have been the earliest example of a tombeau.
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