Jacques Aubert (1689-1753) - Concerto a quatre violons (1740)

Joyeux anniversaire Jacques Aubert! 🎻🎵 Composer: Jacques Aubert (1689-1753) Work: Concerto (en mi mineur) a quatre violons, violoncello et basse-continue... IIe livre, gravé par De Gland..., oeuvre XXVI (1740) Performers: Les Cyclοpеs ensemble Painting: Anoniem (18th Century) - Höfische Szene im Palastgarten HD image: Painting: Attriubé à Louis-Michel Van Loo (1707-1771) - Portrait d’un violoniste (possibly Jacques Aubert) HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Jacques Aubert [le vieux, le père] (Paris, 30 September 1689 - Belleville, nr Paris, 17/18 May 1753) French violinist and composer. He was probably a son of Jean Aubert, a member of the 24 Violons du Roi until his death in 1710. He was a student of Jean Baptiste Senaillé. In 1717 he is known to have been working in the Théâtres de la Foire, as a violinist and dancing-master, and had composed at least five ballets and comedies. In 1719, the year in which he married Marie Louise Lecat and published his first book of violin sonatas, he was appointed to the service of Louis-Henri, Duke of Bourbon and Prince of Condé. In 1727 he succeeded Noël Converset in the 24 Violons du Roi, remaining a member until 1746, and in the next year he accepted a position with the Académie Royale de Musique and was named first violinist of the Opéra orchestra, with which he performed for the next 24 years. As a composer, his output includes ballet and dance music, opéras comiques, concertos, sonatas for violin and continuo and what he called ‘concerts de simphonie’. His son, the painter Louis Aubert Aubert (), was also a violinist and composer. Another son, Jean-Louis Aubert (1731-1814) was a dramatist, poet and journalist, also known as the Abbé Aubert.