François Roberday

François Roberday was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices, a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ pieces.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on François Roberday.

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François Roberday, active around the middle of the 17th century, held a notable position as valet de chambre to the Queen, mother of Louis XIV, and served as organist for the church of Les Petits-Pères. His influence extended to the next generation of composers, as he was one of the composition teachers of Lulli, according to the Biographie universelle des musiciens (1866). Roberday’s published work includes “Fugues et caprices à quatre parties, mises en partition pour l’orgue,” which was engraved and released in Paris in 1660. The Biographie universelle des musiciens (1866) notes that there is “talent in this work.”