Philibert Delavigne
was a French

France

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Little is known of his life, except that he was active at the court of Louis XV and entered the service of the Comte d'Ayen around 1730.

Only three sets of compositions by Delavigne survive:

• op. 1 Six Suites (Paris, 1731)
• op. 2 [6] Sonates: Original title: "Sonates pour la Musette, Vielle, Flute-a-bec, Traversiere, Hautbois etc. Avec la Basse par Mr. De Lavigne II. Oeuvre"

Titles for those sonatas are as follows:
1. "La Baussan" (C major)
2. "La d'Agut" (C minor)
3. "La Dubois" (C major)
4. "La Beaumont" (C major)
5. "La Persan" (G major)
6. "La Simianne" (G major)

• op. 4 Les Fleurs, 24 pièces

All these compositions are described in their full titles as suitable for musette de cour

Musette de cour

The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux. Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed, giving a quiet tone similar to...

, hurdy-gurdy and violin or transverse flute.
Robert A. Green explains that the composer's preference was always shown by the exact order in which the instruments are named.
According to this principle, Delavigne's surviving works were composed for musette even though they remain eminently accessible for the hurdy-gurdy.