Jacques Gallot
Jacques Gallot
Genres: baroque, Classical, lute, french, baroque classical composer
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About Jacques Gallot
Jacques Gallot, known in seventeenth-century and modern scholarship as Gallot le vieux or Gallot de Paris, was a French lutenist and composer active during the middle decades of the seventeenth century. Authority consensus situates him broadly between circa 1600 and the later 1680s, with his activity firmly associated with Paris. He belongs to a documented musical family: he was the brother of Alexandre Gallot, himself active as a lutenist, and the epithet le vieux serves to distinguish him from other bearers of the Gallot name in later sources. Gallot’s historical presence is anchored above all by a substantial printed lute book, Pièces de luth composées sur differens modes, issued in Paris by the publisher H. Bonneuil. This collection, transmitted in French lute tablature, preserves a wide-ranging sequence of dance movements and character pieces, several of which carry distinctive titles, including allemandes, sarabandes, menuets, and a concluding set of Folies d’Espagne mises par l’autheur. The print constitutes the principal secure witness for Gallot’s output and establishes him as a composer whose works circulated in authoritative engraved form rather than solely through manuscript transmission. Beyond this printed source, Gallot’s name also appears in later scholarly transcriptions and discussions of the French lute repertory, confirming continued awareness of his music within musicological literature. RECORDINGS (select, documentary) A modern point of access to Gallot’s music is the recording Jacques de Gallot: Pièces de Luth performed by Hopkinson Smith, which presents selected pieces attributed to Gallot drawn from the seventeenth-century printed tradition and documented with explicit track attributions.
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