Dubuisson [Jean Laquemant] | Quatre suites pour viole de gambe seule (1666)
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Original edition restored & augmented by Atelier Philidor.

  • Instrumentation: viola da gamba (bass)
  • Edition | Source: Facsimile (2016, 2023 second restoration) | Manuscript (by unknown copyists), Paris, 1666
  • 1 volume, 94 pages | 27.9 x 21.6 cm
  • Notation | Clefs: F4, C3, French tablature
  • Text language: French

The most ancient source of French music for viola da gamba. The manuscript is dated September 1st, 1666 and was probably collected for a pupil. It contains 4 suites and 2 pieces notated in tablature as well as instructions for fingering and for bowing.

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Dubuisson (fl.1666-c.1685) is the sole French viol player-composer between Nicolas Hotman (1613-1663) and Le Sieur de Sainte-Colombe (d.c. 1700) whose works are extant. His four suites from a Library of Congress manuscript (1666) are the oldest dated French music for the bass viol; his approximately 125 pieces are contained in five manuscript sources.
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