Career
lieutenant is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnais or Burgundian petty nobility. And also the selfsame "Jean de Sainte-Colombe" noted as the father of "Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le fils." This assumption was erroneous, according to subsequent research in Paris by American bass viol player and musicologist Jonathan Dunford. M. Sainte-Colombe may or may not be linked to the ancient family and last name "de Sancta Columba" (old form in Latin), name taken from the third century Saint from Sens - Wiki article about the Saint.
There is a book written by Claude Le Laboureur in 1673 regarding the genealogy of the Sainte Colombe family in France.
Although there was another important branch of the family in the Béarn region as mentioned above. This is confirmed by numerous archives in Pau, as well as a surviving castle in the Bearn region.
There is a book written by Claude Le Laboureur in 1673 regarding the genealogy of the Sainte Colombe family in France. Sainte-Colombe was a celebrated master of the viola da gamba.
lieutenant is said that he added the seventh string (Associate of Arts) on the bass viol.
Aside from these students - Mlle Rougevillle, Mlle Vignon, Sainte-Colombe"s students included the Sieur de Danoville, Jean Desfontaines, Pierre Méliton, Jean Rousseau and notably Marin Marais, who wrote Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, in 1701, as a memorial to his instructor. Amongst the extant works of Sainte-Colombe are sixty-seven Concerts à deux violes esgales, and over 170 pieces for solo seven-string viol, making him perhaps the most prolific French viol composer before Marin Marais. In 1991, Pascal Quignard published a novel giving a conjectural picture of the relationship between M. de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, entitled Tous les matins du monde (All the World"s Mornings).
Alain Corneau directed a film based on it, with Jean-Pierre Marielle as Sainte-Colombe, Guillaume Depardieu as the young and Gérard Depardieu as the aged Marin Marais.
The soundtrack of the film was realized by Jordi Savall. A quotation from a composition of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe is used in Carlo Forlivesi"s Requiem (1999).