Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer,

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active between 1665 and 1692.David Ledbetter, Grove Music Online, mentioned by Oxford Index
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Biography

Charles Hurel was a musician and eminent professor from a prosperous family of Parisian

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s which included some of the main instrumental factors of

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in the 17th century. He seems to have been the only member of his family who was also a composer.''The Journal of the Lute Society, Volumes 35 à 39'', Lute Society, 1997 (p. 189). He was listed as "ordinary officer of the Academy of Music" in 1684 and as a professor of

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in Paris. A document of 7 April 1676, which gives his signature and that of several other members of his family, describes him as a "lute player". Among his pupils were Marie Du Port de la Balme and Mademoiselle de Lionne.Claudia Knispel, ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Lautenistinnen und Gitaristinnen der Renaissance und des Barock'', Kassel University Press, 2014, . He died in Paris c. 1692.

Namesake

Charles Hurel had a namesake, who died in 1648, who was a master painter and sculptor, active among others in the realization of ceilings painted "à la française".

Works

* ''Tablature de luth et de théorbe'' (c. 1675 or 1680) * Theorbo pieces by Charles Hurel, together with lute and theorbo pieces by many other composers can be found in the (c. 1699) housed at the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon.Fuentes barroco
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Discography

Christopher Wilke: ''Works for Theorbo'' - Centaur Records CRC 2875

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