Louis de Caix d'Hervelois

Caix d'Hervelois wrote music almost exclusively for the viol.

However, his changing addresses appear in his published music as well as in passing in contemporary discussions of the viol, and in brief notes in archives.

The longest archival text (1697) documents a request by a canon of Sainte-Chapelle, annoyed by the noise of the young chapelain ordinaire Caix learning to play the viol, that Caix practice in a room under the stairs.

Louis de Caix d'Hervelois was a pupil of the great Marin Marais.

Caix's tuneful, graceful music is firmly in the French tradition of character pieces in dance suites.