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Robert Ballard
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French lutenist and composer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Chit-Chat Stories Told Around the Hearth
- My Ballard Genealogy and near Kin-Henderson County NC
- Living the Good Life Part I-My Stories
- Family Roots- the Ballard's of Zirconia, NC, Kinfolk, and Short Stories from the Journey
- Memories of Bull Town-Tuxedo a Cotton Mill Community
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1. Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior (ca. 1527-1588) was the head of the well-known music publishers, "Le Roy and Ballard", founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable virtuoso lutenist and composer of the period). From 1612 he entered the service of the French Regent, Maria de Medici, and was tutor to the young King Louis XIII, becoming a lutenist and composer (musicien ordin
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Instrument
- lute
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- date of birth
- 1575-01-01
- date of death
- 1645-01-01
- name in native language
- Robert II Ballard
- Commons category
- Robert Ballard II
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