Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694 – February 13, 1772) was a French organist and harpsichordist.
Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as the organist at Saint Honoré church in Paris. Following this appointment he was the organist in several important churches: the Royal Abbey of St Victor (destroyed during the French Revolution), the St Eustache church, the Chapel Royal where he succeeded François d'Agincourt (1758), and the Notre-Dame Cathedral. At the end of his life he had to resign his appointment as organist due to illness, but was given a pension by the King.
His output includes: Three harpsichord books (before 1751)
- Pièces de clavecin – Oeuvre première - Les Caractères de la Paix in C:
- La Renommée
- Marche en rondeau
- Fanfare
- Le Feu
- Les Grâces pour musette
- 2ème Musette
- Les Ris: rondeau
- Tambourin
- Les Jeux: rondeau
- Second Livre de Pièces de clavecin
- Les Forgerons, le Concert des faunes et autres pièces de clavecin. Troisième Livre
- Several arias for two parts and continuo (‘’La belle Silvie’’ etc.)
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