Gaultier (Gautier Gaulthier), Denis

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Gaultier (Gautier Gaulthier), Denis

Gaultier (Gautier, Gaulthier), Denis, French lutenist and composer, cousin of Ennemond Gaultier; b. Marseilles?, 1603; d. Paris, late Jan. 1672. He spent most of his life in Paris as a lutenist. With his cousin, he was a leading composer of lute music and a major influence on the keyboard style of Froberger.

Works

La Rhétorique des dieux (Paris, c. 1652; ed. by A. Tessier in Publications de la Société Fran÷hise de Musicologie, VI-VII, 1932); Piéces de luth sur trois differens modes nouveaux (Paris, c. 1670; reprint, 1978); Livre de tablature des piéces de Mr. Gaultier Sr. de Neve et de Mr. Gaultier son cousin (Paris, c. 1672; reprint, 1978).

Bibliography

E. Häffner, Die Lautenstucke des D. G. (Endingen, 1939); A. Souris and M. Rollin, eds., OEuvres du vieux Gautier (Paris, 1966).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire