null Skip to main content
Page background

Fiocco

Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703–1741) was a Brussels-born composer of Italian descent, the son of Pietro Antonio Fiocco, an Italian musician who had settled in the Spanish Netherlands and established a musical dynasty in the city. He served as a church musician in Brussels and Antwerp, composing in the late Baroque style that characterised the musical life of the southern Netherlands. His Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1, written for harpsichord, are his most substantial surviving work; the Allegro from that collection has since been widely arranged for violin and become a familiar presence in intermediate teaching and examination programmes, played by students who rarely connect it to its origins as keyboard music.

Frequently Asked Questions