Nicolas Vallet
Illustration — Portrait of Nicolas Vallet, 1615 Nicolas Vallet (also Valet; c. 1583 – c. 1642) was a French lutenist and composer who emigrated to the Dutch Republic.
Nicolas Vallet
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- Kingdom of France · Dutch Republic
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- composer · lutenist
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- music
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- classical music · Baroque music
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Portrait of Nicolas Vallet, 1615 Nicolas Vallet (also Valet; c. 1583 – c. 1642) was a French lutenist and composer who emigrated to the Dutch Republic.
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Vallet, a Huguenot, was born in Corbeny, Aisne, but fled around 1613 from France to the Netherlands for unknown reasons. In Amsterdam he worked as a self-supporting musician, lute teacher, and as the owner of a dance school. His primary work, Le Secret des Muses, contains compositions and instruction for the 10-course Renaissance lute. It was published in two parts in 1615 and 1616. It was among the last compositions to appear for this instrument, before it was supplanted by the Baroque lute. He also wrote a Psalms of David (in 1615) and Regia Pietas (in 1622). According to Frederick Neumann, Vallet may have been among the first to introduce ornaments to the lute tablature.
Nicolas Vallet is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of France. Recorded with the occupation composer.
Nicolas Vallet
Joannes Berwinckel · "Le Secret des Muses"
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1642
Nicolas Vallet died on 1 January 1642.
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- 1.Tollefsen, Randall H. Vallet, Nicolas.
- 2.Neumann, Frederick (1983). . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 66. .
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