Artist: Robert De Visée
Author: Robert de Visée
Year: 1682
French lute player, guitarist and composer at the courts of Louis XIV and XV (1655-c1733). From his Suite #3 in D-Minor (for guitar).
Covers:
Georg Friedrich Händel [clearly copied as part of his (orchestral) Suite #4 in D-minor]
Narciso Yepes [as second part of Jeux interdits, 1ère partie; for his world famous first part, main theme of eponymous René Clément film, see: Romance anonyme]
Paul Wolfe [on harpsichord]
Rene Bartoli [on guitar]
National Philharmonic Orchestra [as Main Theme, End-Title and twice as Duel (the second time on guitar) in Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon, crediting Händel]
Thierry Mutin [n°3 Fr as Sketch Of Love]
Kubrick's version was copied in commercials (WWF, Levi's Jeans) and TV series (BBC's Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution). Also in film A Cock And Bull Story ('06).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)