Robert de Visée (1652-1730) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and a composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.
365–66) wrote that he studied with Corbetta and this information has been repeated uncritically in later sources including Strizich and Ledbetter 2001.
de Visée is first mentioned (by Le Gallois) in 1680, and at about that time he became a chamber musician to Louis XIV, in which capacity he often performed at court.
Jean Rousseau reported in a letter of 1688 that Visée was a respected musician at Versailles and played the viol (Strizich & Ledbetter 2001).
He died in Paris on February 15, 1730, leaving his son François de Visée as his sole heir[1].