Jacques Gallot

Jacques Gallot
(d Paris, c1690). Lutenist and composer, brother of (1) Alexandre Gallot. He was known as ‘vieux Gallot de Paris’.

He was a pupil of Ennemond Gaultier. His Pièces de luth composées sur differens modes (Paris, n.d.) includes a brief method for the lute. The inclusion of minuets and the arrangement of pieces by keys and forms anticipate the later suite. In addition to this collection most of the pieces in an untitled lute manuscript (D-LEm II614) are signed ‘vieux Gallot’. These two sources comprise almost all his identified music, but a few other pieces by him are among those signed simply ‘Gallot’ found in other manuscripts (in F-Pn, B, GB-Ob, HAdolmetsch, A-GÖ, KR, Wn, CZ-Pu and S-K). His compositions include several musical portraits – La Fontange and La Montespan among others – and tombeaux – among them those in memory of Turenne, Condé and Madame – inspired by members of the court. Visée in turn composed a tombeau in memory of Gallot.