Pierre-Claude Foucquet

Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694 – February 13, 1772) was a French organist and harpsichordist.

Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as the organist at Saint Honoré church in Paris. Following this appointment he was the organist in several important churches: the Royal Abbey of St Victor (destroyed during the French Revolution), the St Eustache church, the Chapel Royal where he succeeded François d'Agincourt (1758), and the Notre-Dame Cathedral. At the end of his life he had to resign his appointment as organist due to illness, but was given a pension by the King.

His output includes: Three harpsichord books (before 1751)

• Pièces de clavecin – Oeuvre première - Les Caractères de la Paix in C:
  • La Renommée
  • Marche en rondeau
  • Fanfare
  • Le Feu
  • Les Grâces pour musette
  • 2ème Musette
  • Les Ris: rondeau
  • Tambourin
  • Les Jeux: rondeau
• Second Livre de Pièces de clavecin
• Les Forgerons, le Concert des faunes et autres pièces de clavecin. Troisième Livre
• Several arias for two parts and continuo (La belle Silvie etc.)

See also

• French baroque harpsichordists

External links

• Free scores by Pierre-Claude Foucquet at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)