Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Pierre-Claude Foucquet was a French organist and harpsichordist.
Foucquet was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Foucquet and Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was born into a family of musicians. At age 18, he was appointed as the organist at Saint Honoré church in Paris. Following this appointment he was the organist in several important churches: the Royal Abbey of St Victor, the St Eustache church, the Chapel Royal where he succeeded François d'Agincourt, and the Notre-Dame Cathedral. At the end of his life he had to resign his appointment as organist due to illness, but was given a pension by the King.
His output includes:
Three harpsichord books
- Pièces de clavecin – Oeuvre première - Les Caractères de la Paix in C:
- *La Renommée
- *Marche en rondeau
- *Fanfare
- *Le Feu
- *Les Grâces pour musette
- *2ème Musette
- *Les Ris: rondeau
- *Tambourin
- *Les Jeux: rondeau
- Second Livre de Pièces de clavecin
- Les Forgerons, le Concert des faunes et autres pièces de clavecin. Troisième Livre
- Several arias for two parts and continuo
