Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167416 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French people, French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biography Hotteterre was born in Paris, France, the son of Martin Hotteterre (d. 1712) and Marie Crespy. In about 1704, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre succeeded his cousin Jacques in the post of ''basse de hautbois et taille de violon'' at the royal court. Hotteterre lived and studied in Rome early in his career, and his nickname ''le Romain'' (the Roman) came from this period. He spent two years (1698–1700) employed by Prince Francesco Ruspoli#The first Prince of Cerveteri – Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Ruspoli in Rome, before adopting the nickname of "Le Romain" at some point between 1705 and 1707. By 1708, he became a musician to the Louis XIV, King of France, in the king's ''Grande Écurie,'' and in 1717, he inherited René Pignon De ...
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