Eustache Picot (died 1651) was a French musician and composer. He was maître de musique of the
maîtrise Saint-Evode at the cathedral of Rouen (1601-1604), and sous-maître of the
chapelle royale
The ''chapelle royale'' (chapel royal) was the musical establishment attached to the royal chapel of the French kings. The term may also be applied to the chapel buildings, the Chapelle royale de Versailles.
The establishment included a choir, or ...
of
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
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, following
Nicolas Formé, from 1609 till his death. He was succeeded by
Thomas Gobert. Despite his reputation in his own lifetime only fragments of his works survive. The king gave him the abbaye de Chaulmoy and a canonry at the
Sainte Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle (; ) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.
Construction bega ...
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[Biographie universelle classique: ou, Dictionnaire historique portatif - Volume 2 - Page 2363 Charles Theodore Beauvais de Preau, Antoine-Alexandre Barbier - 1829 "PICOT (Eustache), musicien-compositeur, sous-maître de la chapelle de Louis XIII, a laissé quelques morceaux qui ne sont bons qu'a donner une idée de la musique d'église de cette époque. Le roi lui avait donné l'abbaye de Chaulmoy et un canonicat de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris, où il fonda une procession du Saint-Sacrement, qui avait lieu tous les ans le jour de Pâques, et à laquelle le chapitre devait chanter divers morceaux de..."]
References
French Baroque composers
French male classical composers
1651 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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