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Grove Music Online
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AUSTIN B. CASWELL, GEORGIE DUROSOIR : 'Le Bailly, Henry', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Le Bailly, Henry [Bailly, Henry du; Bailly, Henry de]
(d Paris, 25 Sept 1637). French composer, lutenist and singer. He worked at the court of Henry IV, where he was valet de chambre du roi et maître joueur de luth (1601), and at the court of Louis XIII. According to Jean Héroard, doctor to the young Louis XIII, the child king liked hearing Le Bailly sing songs to him to help him sleep. He was listed as musicien ordinaire du Roy in 1627, and until he retired in favour of Paul Auget in January 1625 he was, jointly with Antoine Boësset, surintendant of the music of the chambre du roy. He took part in several ballets de cour at least until 1622, including the Ballet de la follie (1614), the Ballet de Madame (1615, also known as the Ballet de Minerve) and the Ballet de Monsieur le Prince (1615). Two songs that he wrote for them were printed in Gabriel Bataille’s Airs mis en tablature de luth (Paris, 1614–15), and three others in Jacques Mangeant’s Recueil des plus beaux airs (Caen, 1615). […] Mersenne and others testify to the admiration felt for Le Bailly by his contemporaries, and 30 years after his death his memory was still fresh.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. McGowan: L’art du ballet de cour en France (1581–1643) (Paris, 1963).
G. Durosoir: L’air de cour en France (1571–1655) (Liège, 1991)."
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