About Jacques Cordier dit Bocan
Lived 1580 – 1653 (aged 72–73). Jacques Cordier dit Bocan was a violinist, dancer, dance teacher and composer.
Jacques Cordier ( – 1653), known as "Bocan", was a French player of the violin and rebec, dancing master and composer, in the reign of Louis XIII.
Career He was born in Lorraine about 1580. He was unable to read music, but had great power of execution, and Marin Mersenne mentions his gift of modulating the tones of the violin. He was dancing master to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I, and known as "Buckan" or "Boucan". Later, he was dancing master to Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I of England. The King took great delight in hearing him play the violin.
Cordier returned to Paris when the Civil War broke out. His tomb at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois was restored in 1843.
François de Chancy's Tablature de Mandore (Paris, 1629), contains a graceful branle by Cordier.
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Who was Jacques Cordier dit Bocan?
French violinist and dancing master
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Jacques Cordier dit Bocan was born in 1580 in Abbeville.
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Jacques Cordier dit Bocan died in 1653.
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Jacques Cordier dit Bocan was a violinist, dancer, dance teacher and composer.
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