The dates of this composer are generally given as 1616 - 1710 which seems a phenomenal life span for the time and even more so when his extant lute works seem to be in the style of the early decades of the 18th century (even down to fashionable doubling of the top and bottom line by strings) which would have made him well into his 90s when these works were composed....... His compositional style also seems much closer to Austro-germanic composers like Logy, von Radolt, Hintherleithner et al who flourished around the turn of the century being predominantly in a polarised treble and bass manner.
I can find little about this shadowy figure but am being drawn to the speculation that there may have been two different composers with the same name (father and son/nephew perhaps). Can anybody shed further light? Perhaps I've missed a paper? One clue ought to be the names of pieces such as 'La Prise de Barcellonne', which might suggest a date of 1705 or 1714 but could be some earlier investment, or 'Le defaittes des Francois par les Allemand Devant Turin' which suggests 1703. Again I find it hard to believe that the same San Luc was composing such 'modern' programmatic music at such a ripe old age. MH -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
