Pierre Tabart

Pierre Tabart (Chinon, 1645-Meaux ?, 1716) was a French composer and "maître de chapelle". He was first trained at Tours, by "a certain Burgaut, the most able man of his time in counterpoint, but also so stubborn in this style, that he hated with a passion modern music and especially Italian music, and supremely despised those who applied themselves to them or liked them". As his student, "despite his ability for [traditional] counterpoint he did justice to the whole world" (cf.