Robert II Ballard (c.1574-c.1650) was a French lutenist, composer, and royal music printer, and a central figure in the musical world of early Bourbon France. Born into the famed Ballard family, who held the royal privilege for music printing from 1551 onward, he inherited both artistic and editorial authority in a period when Paris was rapidly becoming one of Europe’s most vibrant centres of lute culture. Ballard entered the service of Louis XIII and the French royal household as luthiste du Roi
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Branle du village
Entrée du luth / Göttingen
Premier livre de luth: Courante
Courante
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