After the remarks made about Satoh's liner notes, I hate to cite any others, but in Philippe Beaussant's rather poignant notes to Hopkison Smith's Pieces de Theorbe (Astree 7733), claim is made that Corbetta became known to Louis when Lully had the two play together in le Ballet de la Galanterie du temps. I believe this was1656. Corbetta must have been proud of this performance, since it is mentioned in both prefaces to his book of 1671.
I reason (conjecture again!) that guitar instructions from Corbetta to the King would have been earlier rather than later. Jourdan was succeeded by his son, Louis Anne, in 1695. So, why was it de Visee, not Jourdan, who was specifically called on to play the guitar to Louis while the latter was recovering from his almost-fatal illness of 1686? The guitar-loving king must have admired his playing. (Incidentally, it was while performing the Te Deum written to celebrate Louis' recovery from this illness that Lully suffered the wound that caused his death.) Peter On Mar 2, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: Many many thanks for all this fascinating information. Jourdan must have been quite an important person in Louis' household. I have only one comment - Corbetta died in 1681 so he can't have succeeded Jourdon in 1695 and in any case he spent most of his last 20 years in England although he visited France again on a number of occasions. Perhaps he gave Louis a few master classes when he was in Paris. Best Monica To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
