Gaspard the Russet-red one
See also: Russet-red (homonymy)
Gaspard the Russet-red is a type-setter Clavecin ist and active French organist with Paris at the end of the 17th century at the beginning of the 18th century; it would have been born towards 1660 and dies at the latest in June 1707.
Its life, its work
One knows nothing about the life Gaspard the Russet-red one; apart from its work, it is mentioned only by some quotations including one in a list of professors considered in Paris. It would owe this relative anonymity to the fact that it did not form part of the court of Versailles, but its real identity, to suppose that it was a pseudonym, gave place to many assumptions.It published a collection of continuations for one and two harpsichords published in 1705. Gaspard the Russet-red precise in preamble which these works can be played on other instruments. This work falls under the French tradition between those of D' Anglebert and Couperin. It is not very important quantitatively, but very original.
One always noted the similarity of the topic of a Gigue in the major one of the Russet-red one and Prélude of the English continuation of the same tonality of Jean-Sebastien Bach. This last could thus have borrowed it from the Russet-red one (English continuations being of later composition) unless both did not adapt it a Charles Dieupart, French musician emigrant in London which publishes it in 1701.
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