Carolus Hacquart (c.1640-c.1701) - Domine, Deus meus des 'Cantiones Sacrae 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
tam vocum quam Instrumentorum' (1674)
Performers: Ensemble Bouzignac Utrecht; Erik van Nevel (conductor)
Further info: De Triomfeerende Min (1678)
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Flemish composer. Son of Jan Hacquart and his second wife Nicole Fleury,
he received his basic musical training as a choirboy at his parish
church of St Saviour and thereafter at St Bavo in nearby Ghent. On
leaving in 1662 he was awarded a scholarship to study an 'ars mechanica'
(viola and organ). Attracted by the growth of musical life of wealthy
citizens in the United Dutch Provinces, he moved first to Rotterdam
where in 1669 he married a local girl, Catharina van Boere and where his
first three children where born. He worked as an independent musician,
teaching members of the local bourgeoisie, among whom a future
burgomaster of Rotterdam, Willem van Hogendorp, the dedicatee of his
'Harmonia Parnassia Sonatarum' (1686). Just after leaving for Amsterdam
in 1674, he presented himself to the public as a composer with a set of
ten 'Cantiones Sacrae'. In the introduction to this edition, he
expressed hopes that once the war with France was over, music should
occupy a prominent place at the Dutch court. In 1678 the poet Dirck
Buysero, commissioned Hacquart to write music for his pastoral play
celebrating the Peace of Nijmegen. The resulting piece, 'De
triomfeerende Min', is now generally considered as the first opera with a
Dutch libretto. He also became choirmaster and organist at the hidden
Catholic church in the Idastraat for a few years, where he published his
viol suites 'Chelys' (1687). After a last attempt in 1689 to obtain the
money Buysero owned him for the composition of 'De triomfeerende Min',
Carolus Hacquart disappears from the musical records in Holland.
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