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Denis Gaultier (1603 – January 1672) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 lutenist and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. He was a cousin of Ennemond Gaultier
Ennemond Gaultier

Ennemond Gaultier was a French lutenist and composer. He was one of the masters of the 17th century French lute school.He worked first in Lyon and in 1620, he became valet of the Queen Mother Marie de' Medici and court lutenists in Paris....
, with whom he was closely connected (Denis was called "Gaultier le jeune" to separate him from Ennemond, but nonetheless publications often misattributed works between them or printed only their last name); perhaps also a student of Charles Racquet
Charles Racquet

Charles Racquet was a France organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 1618....
, whose death he commemorated with a tombeau
Tombeau

"In instrumental music, tombeau signifies a musical 'tombstone' . The musical genre of tombeau is generally connected with music for the lute of the 17th and 18th centuries....
. He held no court position, but gained fame through salon
Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ....
 playing; his works consist mainly of dance suites for the lute
Lute

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
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Denis Gaultier (1603 – January 1672) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 lutenist and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. He was a cousin of Ennemond Gaultier
Ennemond Gaultier

Ennemond Gaultier was a French lutenist and composer. He was one of the masters of the 17th century French lute school.He worked first in Lyon and in 1620, he became valet of the Queen Mother Marie de' Medici and court lutenists in Paris....
, with whom he was closely connected (Denis was called "Gaultier le jeune" to separate him from Ennemond, but nonetheless publications often misattributed works between them or printed only their last name); perhaps also a student of Charles Racquet
Charles Racquet

Charles Racquet was a France organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 1618....
, whose death he commemorated with a tombeau
Tombeau

"In instrumental music, tombeau signifies a musical 'tombstone' . The musical genre of tombeau is generally connected with music for the lute of the 17th and 18th centuries....
. He held no court position, but gained fame through salon
Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ....
 playing; his works consist mainly of dance suites for the lute
Lute

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
. Three published collections of his music appeared later in his life: La rhétorique des dieux (1652), containing suites arranged into the 12 modes; Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux (c. 1670), whose title page designates the contents as wholly his own; and Livre de tablature ... de Mr. Gaultier Sr. de Nève et de Mr. Gaultier son cousin (c. 1672).

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