FRANÇOIS DUFAUT – Musical Portrait of a great lutenist
the rarest man I hope to see upon the lute.' (Constantijn Huygens)
Listen to the Suites of François Dufaut, one of the most famous lutenists of the French Stile around 1630. He was also among the inventers of the experimental tunings, the so called accords nouveaux which leaded finally to the d-minor tuned lute, the today called baroque lute.