Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer, lutenist and theorbist active between 1665 and 1692.David Ledbetter, Grove Music Online, mentioned by Oxford IndexCharles Hurel, data.bnf.fr
Biography Charles Hurel was a musician and eminent professor from a prosperous family of Parisian luthiersLute Society of America Quarterly, Volume 43, The Society, 2008, (p. 38). which included some of the main instrumental factors of Paris in the 17th century.
He seems to have been the only member of his family who was also a composer.The Journal of the Lute Society, Volumes 35 à 39, Lute Society, 1997 (p. 189).
He was listed as "ordinary officer of the Academy of Music" in 1684 and as a professor of theorbo in Paris.
A document of 7 April 1676, which gives his signature and that of several other members of his family, describes him as a "lute player".
Among his pupils were Marie Du Port de la Balme and Mademoiselle de Lionne.Claudia Knispel, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Lautenistinnen und Gitaristinnen der Renaissance und des Barock, Kassel University Press, 2014, .
He died in Paris c. 1692.
Namesake Charles Hurel had a namesake, who died in 1648,Archives Nationales - Minutes et répertoires du notaire Olivier Gaultier who was a master painter and sculptor, active among others in the realization of ceilings painted "à la française".Alexandre Gady, Poutres et solives peintes. Le plafond « à la française », Revue de l'Art, Volume 122, 1998, (p. 13).
Works Tablature de luth et de théorbe (c. 1675Claudia Knispel, (opcit), (p. 183) or 1680Guitar and Lute Handbook, Schott, 2003, .Albert James Diaz, Ann S. Davis, Guide to Reprints, Microcard Editions, 1996, (p. 443).) Theorbo pieces by Charles Hurel, together with lute and theorbo pieces by many other composers can be found in the (c. 1699) housed at the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon.Mémoire vive - Patrimoine numérisé de BesançonCatalogue de la bibliothèque du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles Fuentes barroco
Discography Christopher Wilke: Works for Theorbo - Centaur Records CRC 2875
See also Lute Theorbo
References
External links Prélude - Charles Hurel on YouTube Charles Hurel on Musicalics