Carolus Hacquart

Carolus Hacquart or Carel Hacquart (* around 1640 in Bruges; † around 1701) was a Flemish composer.

Life

Carolus Hacquart moved circa 1670, from the southern, Spanish -ruled Netherlands to Amsterdam, where he settled as a freelance artist. To 1679 he moved his sphere of activity to the Hague, where he lived from music lessons and concerts that he organized with Constantijn Huygens. In a letter of Huygens recommends the reigning Prince Maurits, the " Sieur Hacquart, " ce grand maistre de musique " to provide a hall in the royal palace for concerts.

Hacquarts students were mostly rich patrician and high- officials. 1686 devoted Hacquart two of these students a band with 12 suites. The works were designed so that they could be both played with one as with two viols, and with or without the bass accompaniment. After 1686 we lose track, there are suspicions that he had moved to England.

Works

• Cantiones sacrae, motets of 1674
• Harmonia parnassia, a collection of trio sonatas and quartet sonatas of 1686
• Chelys, Suites for Viola da Gamba in 1686,
• De Triomfeerende Min, A pastoral play composed in 1678 on the occasion of Peace of Nijmegen