True we do not know exactly where de Visée was from, but he was probably born in the Paris area and was active at court as early as 1680. In 1692 du Pradel (aka de Blégny), in his list of masters for the guitar, mentions "de Vizé (a very common spelling of his name at the time), à Luxembourg", which means he lived near the Palais du Luxembourg and not the country of the same name...
Best, Jean-Marie -------------- >I am going off topic here, but do we really know where Robert de Visée is >from? I recall finding an entry in a modern edition of Nicolas Blégny's Le >livre commode (1692) about a certain Visée (spelt differently). He is said to >be from one of the low countries, but I cannot remember which one. Of course, >I could be totally wrong. > >On 28 Feb 2014, at 4:00 am, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Jean-Marie Poirier <jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr> >> wrote: >> >>> Robert de Visée was obviously one of the best on the guitar, theorbo and >>> lute of his time, but his French grammar was not really spotless... ;-) >> >> He was a Spaniard, and he used Google Translate. >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >--
