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Antoine Forqueray (September 1672[1] – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba.

Antoine Forqueray.
Antoine Forqueray.

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,[2] a position Forqueray held until the end of his life.[3] 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 as Robert de Visée (guitar), René Descoteaux (flute), Jean-Baptise Buterne (harpsichord) as well as Forqueray.[4]


Distinctive style


At the time of Forqueray's appointment the most renowned viol player at court was Marin Marais, who was famous for his sweet and gentle musical style. Forqueray in contrast became renowned for his dramatic, striking and brash style. According to Hubert Le Blanc Marais played like an angel, and Forqueray like the devil.[5][6] The Mercure de France of 1738 chided both Antoine and his son Jean-Baptiste-Antoine for writing pieces ‘so difficult that only he and his son can execute them with grace.’ [7]

Forqueray's style was so distinctive that three of his near-contemporaries Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin and Jacques Duphly each composed a piece named 'La Forqueray' as a tribute to him.


Family and later years


In 1697 Forqueray married Henriette-Angélique Houssou, daughter of a church organist. Forqueray was often accompanied by his wife on the harpsichord when he played. Their marriage was apparently most unhappy, and after several shorter periods apart, they separated finally in 1710.[8] His relationship with his son Jean Baptiste was just as difficult. He had his son imprisoned in 1719 and exiled by lettre de cachet in 1725.[9]

In 1730, he retired to Mantes-la-Jolie outside Paris, where he continued to draw his salary, and died in 1745.[10]

His son Jean Baptiste published his works for the viola da gamba in 1747 (two years after his father's death) together with a version for harpsichord. Although Forqueray's obituary notice indicated that at the time of his death around three hundred pieces written by him still existed, the thirty-two pieces contained in his son's edition are all that survive today.[11]


Selected recordings


Pièces de Clavecin, Blandine Rannou, clavecin. 2 CD Zig-Zag Territoires 2007. Diapason d'Or.


References



Sources


  1. Marc Honegger, Dictionnaire de la musique : Tome 1, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. A-K, Bordas, 1979, 1232 p. (ISBN 2-0401-0721-5), p. 358
  2. Petrak, Albert M, (ed.) Greene, David M, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers,The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, 2007
  3. Tilney,Colin (ed.), A Forqueray, Pièces de clavecin, Heugel & cie Paris
  4. Anthony, James R., French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau, Amadeus Press 1997, p.348
  5. Petrak, Albert M, (ed.) Greene, David M, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers,The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, 2007
  6. Sadie, Julie Ann, Companion to Baroque Music,University of California Press 1998 p.131
  7. Anthony, James R., French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau, Amadeus Press 1997, p.403
  8. Bowers, Jane M. & Tick, Judith, Women making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950 University of Illinois Press 1987 p.198
  9. Petrak, Albert M, (ed.) Greene, David M, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers,The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, 2007
  10. Petrak, Albert M, (ed.) Greene, David M, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers,The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, 2007
  11. Tilney,Colin (ed.), A Forqueray, Pièces de clavecin, Heugel & cie Paris



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[de] Antoine Forqueray

Antoine Forqueray (* September 1672 in Paris; † 28. Juni 1745 in Mantes-la-Jolie) war ein französischer Komponist und königlicher Kammermusiker und neben Marin Marais bedeutendster Gambist am Hofe Ludwigs XIV. Er war der Vater von Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray.
- [en] Antoine Forqueray

[es] Antoine Forqueray

Antoine Forqueray (París 1671- Mantes-la-Jolie 1745) fue un compositor francés e intérprete virtuoso de la viola de gamba.

[ru] Форкре, Антуан

Антуа́н Форкре́ (фр. Antoine Forqueray; сентябрь 1672 (1672), Париж — 28 июня 1745, Мант-ла-Жоли, Ивелин) — французский композитор и крупнейший, наряду с Мареном Маре, гамбист эпохи.


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