Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard (disambiguation) • Illustration — An Entrée de luth by Robert Ballard, performed on an eight-course Renaissance lute by David Hernández Romero Robert Ballard II (c. 1572 or 1575after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. Probably born in Paris, his father, Robert Ballard Senior (c.1527–1588) was the head of the well-known music publishers "Le Roy & Ballard", founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable virtuoso lutenist and composer of the period).
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Robert Ballard
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- composer and lutenist.
- Movements
- classical music and Baroque music.
- Languages
- French.
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Robert Ballard (disambiguation) • Illustration — An Entrée de luth by Robert Ballard, performed on an eight-course Renaissance lute by David Hernández Romero Robert Ballard II (c. 1572 or 1575after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. Probably born in Paris, his father, Robert Ballard Senior (c.1527–1588) was the head of the well-known music publishers "Le Roy & Ballard", founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable virtuoso lutenist and composer of the period).
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1575
Robert Ballard was born on 1 January 1575.
1645
Robert Ballard died on 1 January 1645.
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From 1612 he entered the service of the French Regent Maria de Medici and was tutor to the young King Louis XIII, becoming a lutenist and composer ("Musicien ordinaire du roi") at the royal court in 1618.
The family music publishing business eventually passed to Robert´s brother Pierre, who published two books of lute music by Robert: Premier Livre de tablature de luth (1611) and Diverses Pièces mises sur le luth (1614).
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- 1.Paris AN : MC/ET/XVI/183, 18 septembre 1600.
- 2.Il est par exemple cité en cette charge en 1612, cf. Paris BNF (Mss.) : Cinq cents de Colbert 93 f. 292.
- 3.Perroniana 1667 p. 325.
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