- Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694 –
February 13 ,1772 ), was a Frenchorganist andharpsichord ist.Pierre-Claude Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as the organist at Saint Honoré church in Paris. Following this appointment he was the organist in several important churches: the Royal Abbey of St Victor (destroyed during the French Revolution), the St Eustache church, the Chapel Royal where he succeeded
François d'Agincourt (1758), and the Notre-Dame Cathedral. At the end of his life he had to resign his appointment as organist due to illness, but was given a pension by the King.His output includes:Three harpsichord books (before 1751)
* Pièces de clavecin – Oeuvre première - Les Caractères de la Paix in C:
**La Renommée
**Marche en rondeau
**Fanfare
**Le Feu
**Les Grâces pour musette
**2ème Musette
**Les Ris : rondeau
**Tambourin
**Les Jeux: rondeau
*Second Livre de Pièces de clavecin
*Les Forgerons, le Concert des faunes et autres pièces de clavecin. Troisième Livre
*Several arias for two parts and continuo (‘’La belle Silvie’’ etc)External links
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French baroque harpsichordists
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