Henri Foucault (? – c. 1719 or 1720) was a French merchant,

sheet music Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed Book, books or Pamphlet, pamphlets ...

publisher (around 1690) and stationer. His shop was located

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, under the sign ''À la règle d’or''. He was condemned for publishing and selling ''"Airs de musique"'' of which Jean-Christophe Ballard held the privilege (28 June 1690 judgment). On 15 July 1721, the widow Foucault, then remarried, sold the store and the funds to François Boivin and his uncle,

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (4 December 1667 – 22 September 1737) was a French composer of the baroque period. He was born Michel Pignolet in Andelot, Haute-Marne, France, and only later added "Montéclair" (the name of a fortress in h ...

, for their music publishing house established the same year. Among others, Foucault published the works of

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...

Marin Marais Marin Marais (; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe ...

, Louis-Antoine Dornel and Nicolas Siret.

Bibliography

* Raphaëlle Legrand, ''Foucault et la diffusion des œuvres de Lully : l’exemple des parties de basse continue du fonds du Conservatoire de Marseille''. In ''Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully (L’œuvre de Lully : études des sources. Hommage à Lionel Sawkins. éd., Jérôme de La Gorce et Herbert Schneider''). Hildesheim : Olms, 1999, () * Carl B. Schmidt, ''Two new Foucault sources of Lully ballets in the United States''. Dans Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully = L’œuvre de Lully : études des sources. Hommage à Lionel Sawkins. éd. Jérôme de La Gorce et Herbert Schneider. Hildesheim : Olms, 1999, ()Fiche sur stanford.edu
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Foucault, Henri French music publishers (people) 18th century in France Year of birth missing Year of death missing

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