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Grove Music Online
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MAURICE BARTHÉLÉMY: 'Gatti, Theobaldo di', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 8 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Gatti, Theobaldo [Teobaldo] di [Théobalde]
(b ?Florence, c1650; d Paris, 1727). French composer, bass viol player and teacher of Italian birth. According to Titon du Tillet it was the impact on him of some of Lully’s music that he heard in Florence that prompted him to move to Paris. He did so about 1675, was granted letters of naturalization by Louis XIV and was generally known in France simply as ‘Théobalde’. He made his name in Paris as a teacher of the viol, and he played the bass viol in the orchestra of the Académie Royale de Musique. He seems to have enjoyed the protection of the Dowager Princess Conti (an excellent musician who was taught by François Couperin and d’Anglebert). He published a Recueil d’airs italiens (Paris, 1696), a set of ten solo songs and two duets that helped to create a demand for Italian music in France. Two stage works by him are also known: Coronis, a heroic pastoral to a libretto by Chappuzeau de Beaugé that was given in Paris in 1691 (manuscripts in F-Pn, Po and GB-Cfm where it is incorrectly attributed to Lully), and Scylla, a tragédie lyrique, with a libretto by Duché de Vancy (performed and published in Paris in 1701). The style of these works has much in common with that of Lully, but its more individual and lyrical elements are closer to that of Campra: indeed Scylla to some extent foreshadows the latter’s Tancrède (1702)."
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