This is a can of worms. In the liner notes to his recent CD Toyohiko Satoh
claimed that De Visee was Portuguese and came from a small town called Viseu
near Coimbra. This is pure fiction - there is no evidence at all that this
was so. I haven't come across the suggestion that he was from the Low
Countries.
At the present time I don't think it is known where De Visee was born - in
France perhaps....
Monica
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From: "Shaun Ng" <[email protected]>
To: "howard posner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lute List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:05 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise
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 <[email protected]> wrote:
On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Jean-Marie Poirier <[email protected]>
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.
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