Nicolas Lebègue
Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (also ''Le Bègue''; c. 16316 July 1702) was a French
Baroque composer,
organist and
harpsichordist. He was born in
Laon and in the 1650s settled in
Paris, quickly establishing himself as one of the best organists of the country. He lived and worked in Paris until his death, but frequently made trips to other cities to consult on organ building and maintenance matters. Lebègue's reputation today rests on his keyboard music. He made particularly important contributions to the development of the
French organ school by devising pieces with independent
pedal parts and developing the ''Tierce en taille'' genre. His oeuvre also includes the earliest published
unmeasured preludes, as well as some of the earliest known noëls.
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