Gabriel II Bataille was the master of music of French Queen Anne of Austria (1601–1666) from 1630 to 1666.
Biography Third surviving child of the family, after his brother Pierre and his sister Madeleine, Gabriel II Bataille succeeded his father Gabriel Bataille as master of the Queen's music in 1630, who probably named his son in survival. He is cited in this office in an act of 1633,Paris ANF : MC VIII, 639, quoted after Jurgens 1967 (p. 308). in another act dated 1635,Paris ANF : MC XIX, 410, quoted after Jurgens 1974 p. 306. and again in 1636.Paris ANF : MC XVI, 347, idem p. 309. Two roles of the Queen's music mention him precisely: the first in 1641, which specifies his wages of 900 lt per year and that he works in the second half of the year (the first being devolved to Antoine BoëssetParis BNF (Mss.): ms. fr. 16216 f. 383v., transcript in Massip 1976 (pp. 153-155)) The same role mentions his brother Pierre as a lute player. and the second in 1666 just after the death of the queen: he was at the same wages, but worked the first Semester, the second belonging to Robert Cambert.Paris BNF : ms. Clairambault 814 (p. 108), transcript in Massip 1976 (p. 155). See the original at Gallica.
He married Marie Brunet, who gave him a daughter Marguerite baptized on 27 January 1629 in the parish of Saint-Leu, but buried on 18 February.See Brossard 1975 (p. 22), for these acts as well as for the following. On 5 January 1639 Gabriel II became the godfather of Gabriel Morot, the daughter of musician Mathieu Lalemant (husband of his sister Madeleine Bataille), then on 24 April 1645 of Gabriel Piquet and on 27 August 1664 of Robert Gabriel du Garnier.
He died after 1666.
While his father published much, there is no source of possible works by Gabriel II.
Sources Catherine Massip: La Vie des musiciens de Paris au temps de Mazarin (1643-1661): essai d'étude sociale.La Vie des musiciens de Paris au temps de Mazarin (1643-1661): essai d'étude sociale on WorldCat Paris: Picard, 1976.Catherine Massif. La vie des musiciens de Paris au temps de Mazarin (1643-1661) on Persée Musiciens de Paris 1535–1792 after the Laborde file.Musiciens de Paris. 1535-1792 (compte-rendu) on PerséeMusiciens de Paris 1535–1792 Published by Yolande de Brossard.Yolande de Brossard on data.bnf.fr Paris: Picard, 1965. Madeleine Jurgens, Documents du minutier central concernant l’histoire de la musique, 1600–1650.Documents du minutier central concernant l’histoire de la musique, 1600–1650 on academia.edu Paris: 1967, 1974.
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