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BNF, catalogue :
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"Belleville, Jacques de (….-1646) - forme savante à valeur internationale.
Naissance : 15.. -
Mort : 1646.
Compositeur de danses et d'airs pour ballets, danseur, organisateur de fêtes pour la Cour. - Fleurit au début du XVIIe siècle et meurt avant 1646."
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grovemusic
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MARGARET M. McGOWAN : "Belleville, Jacques de", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 9 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Belleville, Jacques de
(fl early 17th century). French dancer, violinist and composer. The only known fact in his personal life is that he was married on 27 May 1637 to Antoinette Guibourg, the widow of the painter and costume designer Daniel Rabel. Belleville was in charge of organizing court entertainments for Louis XIII from c1616 to c1637 and contributed to nearly all ballets performed at court during this time. As a dancer he rivalled Louis Constantin and the celebrated dancing-master Jacques Cordier. He wrote all the dance tunes and some of the airs for Etienne Durand's Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud (1617) and for the Ballet de Tancrède (1619). His virtues as a musician were extolled by Michel de Marolles (Mémoires, Amsterdam edn, 1755, iii, pp.207–8), and together with the singer Marais it was said of him by contemporaries that ‘[ils] n'ont besoing que d'estre nommez pour avoir des louanges’. An allemande and a four-part instrumental piece, Le testament du Sieur de Belleville, survive, and a number of other pieces were arranged for the lute and published in Airs de différents auteurs mis en tablature sur des accords nouveaux (Paris, 1631). Some appear in A. Souris, ed.: Œuvres de Chancy, Bouvier, Belleville, Dubuisson, Chevalier (Paris, 1967).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Jacquot, ed.: Le luth et sa musique: Neuilly-sur-Seine 1957.
M.M. McGowan: L'art du ballet de cour en France 1581–1643 (Paris, 1963/R)
M.M. McGowan: The Ballet de cour of Louis XIII (London, 1986).
D.J. Buch: Dance Music from the Ballets de cour 1575–1651 (New York, 1993)."
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