Robert de Visée

Like many composers of the Baroque era, Robert de Visée was better known as a performer than as a composer. While he played a variety of instruments that included the theorbo, lute, and viola da gamba, it was the guitar with which he is most closely identified and on which he appears to have exhibited his greatest talent. A musician in the French Court of Louis XIV, Visée composed mostly for the guitar, theorbo, and lute, and is arguably the most important French composer of Baroque guitar music. Robert de Visée was born in France around 1655. Little is known about his early ...