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Nicolas Vallet
Person · male · Kingdom of France · Corbeny · born 1583 · died 1645 · recording since 2003
Dutch lute composer of French descent
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Also known as Nicholaas Vallet · Nicholaas Vallett · Nicolas Valet
Timeline
5 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1580s
1640s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Le Secret des Muses: Lute Music by Nicolas Vallet
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2020s
Biography
English biography136 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1344918947
Biography
Nicolas Vallet (also Valet; c. 1583 – c. 1642) was a French lutenist and composer who emigrated to the Dutch Republic.
Vallet, a Huguenot, was born at Corbeny, Aisne, but fled around 1613 from France to the Netherlands for unknown reasons. In Amsterdam he worked as a self-supporting musician, lute teacher, and as the owner of a dance school.
His primary work, Le Secret des Muses, contains compositions and instruction for the 10-course Renaissance lute. It was published in two parts in 1615 and 1616. It was among the last compositions to appear for this instrument, before it was supplanted by the Baroque lute.
He also wrote a Psalms of David (in 1615) and Regia Pietas (in 1622).
According to Frederick Neumann, Vallet may have been among the first to introduce ornaments to the lute tablature.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 10 | 58.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -358 | 1th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
Le Secret des Muses: Lute Music by Nicolas Vallet
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 28 tracks · 1:14:01
1Prelude1:582Passemeze en b mol3:293Bouree d'Avignon2:074Courante1:225Gaillarde du comte Essex3:376Boerinneken3:247Les Pantalons2:358Praeludium2:399Allemande fortune helas pourquoy4:0110Fantasie La Mendiante3:5411Soet Robbert2:4112Gaillarde2:1513Fantasie3:4414Pavanne en forme de complainte4:4115Carillon de Village2:3616Onse Vader in Hemelryck6:0117Praeludium2:3518Courante1:4219La Sarabande espagnolle1:0220Guillemette2:0221Courante La Vallette2:2022Courante de Mars1:4223La Chacona1:2524Une Jeune Fillette2:4025Onder de Lindegröne2:0626La Princesse1:3127L'avignonne1:4728Slaep, soete slaep2:052024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:00:19
1Bourrée D’Avignon1:422Ballet III1:323Prelude III1:014Passemeze D’Italye3:245Gaillaide De Passemeze1:136Pavanne5:397Fantasye Sur Le Passemeze D’Italye3:528La Sarabande Espagnolle0:429Gaillarde1:2110Courante1:1511Praeludium2:5712Psalm 53 Insaniens3:3413Canticum Marie2:5014Onse Vader In Hemelryck6:3715Prelude I1:1016Fortune Angloise1:0717Malsimmes1:2618Slaep Soete Slaep1:3319Ballet I1:2720Gaillarde Du Comte Essex4:3121La Piccarde1:0222La Vallette0:5123Une Jeune Fillette3:0524Pavanne De Spagne2:2725Onder De Lindegrone1:2426Carillon De Village2:37
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Nicolas Vallet head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 10 | 58.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -358 | 1th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eda59767-9520-4726-90b0-48fc294ca66fcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326707seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Valletbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Wikidata: Q326707 · MusicBrainz: eda59767-9520-4726-90b0-48fc294ca66f