Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
De B. [Henri de Briqueville? Du Boussac?]
work information
Premier livre de pièces pour la viole, contenant quatre suites, avec la basse chifré en partition par De B**
place (and editor)
Paris, Boivin, Le Clerc
date
n. d. (1734)
scoring
vb + bc
where
source
Private collection (olim GB-HAdolm)
further information
notes
The author, who claims in the dedication to have studied with Caix d’Hervelois, could be Du Boussac, whose Livre de viole: 1er livre appears in the Leclerc catalogs; another potential identification (hypothesis advanced by Quagliozzi-Guillo, see bibliography) is Henri de Briqueville.
RISM
A/I: IN 20; ID 990072868
bibliography
Michel Quagliozzi, Laurent Guillo, Nouveaux elements sur la vie de Louis D’Hervelois de Caix (1677 – 1759), «Revue de musicologie» 101/1 (2015), p. 3-52. Pré-publication 2014, pp. 28-30
