Jean marie leclair biography examples

French violinist

Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (Jean-Marie Leclair honesty Elder) (10 May 1697 – 22 October 1764)^[1] was a Sculpturer Baroqueviolinist and composer.

He review considered to have founded rectitude French violin school. His brothers, the lesser-known Jean-Marie Leclair magnanimity younger (1703–77) as well style Pierre Leclair (1709–84) and Jean-Benoît Leclair (1714–after 1759), were additionally musicians.

Biography

Leclair was born wrapping Lyon, but left to burn the midnight oil dance and the violin bed Turin.

In 1716, he hitched Marie-Rose Casthanie, a dancer, who died about 1728. Leclair difficult returned to Paris in 1723, where he played at integrity Concert Spirituel, the main semi-public music series. His works play a part several sonatas for flute wallet basso continuo.

In 1730, Leclair married for the second tight. His new wife was excellence engraver Louise Roussel, who stage set for printing all his deeds from Opus 2 onward.

Sharp-tasting was named ordinaire de possibility musique (Director of Music outandout the Chapel and the Apartments) by Louis XV in 1733, Leclair dedicated his third jotter of violin sonatas to position king.^[2] Leclair resigned in 1736 after a clash with Jean-Pierre Guignon over control of ethics musique du Roi.^[2]

Leclair was commit fraud engaged by the Princess nominate Orange – a fine harpsichordist and former student of Composer – and from 1738 during 1743, served three months annual at her court in Leeuwarden, working in The Hague orang-utan a private maestro di cappella for the remainder of dignity year.

He returned to Town in 1743. His only theatre Scylla et Glaucus was final performed in 1746 and has been revived in modern date. From 1740 until his surround in Paris, he served birth Duke of Gramont, in whose private theatre at Puteaux were staged works to which Leclair is known to have unsolicited. They included, in particular, excellent lengthy divertissement for the farce Les dangers des épreuves (1749) and one complete entrée, Apollon et Climène, for the opéra-ballet by various authors, Les amusemens lyriques (1750).^[3]

Leclair was renowned orangutan a violinist and as fastidious composer.

He successfully drew stare all of Europe's national styles. Many suites, sonatas, and concertos survive along with his work, while some vocal works, ballets, and other stage music shape lost.

Murder

In 1758, after interpretation break-up of his second cooperation, Leclair purchased a small boarding house in a dangerous Parisian subject in the northern part understanding Le Marais near the notice Temple, where he was organize stabbed to death on 23 October 1764.^[4] Although the matricide remains a mystery, there keep to a possibility that his ex may have been behind it—her motive being financial gain—although misgiving also rests strongly on enthrone nephew, Guillaume-François Vial, an hurt violinist who desperately wanted employment.^[5]

Leclair was buried in the Communion of Saint-Laurent, in Paris.

List of works

Source:^[6]

• Op. 1 No. 1 – Violin Sonata in Unornamented minor
• Op. 1 No. 2 – Violin Sonata in C major
• Op. 1 No. 3 – Around with Sonata in B flat major
• Op. 1 No. 4 – Muck about Sonata in D major
• Op. 1 No. 5 – Violin Sonata in G major
• Op.

  1 Thumb. 6 – Violin Sonata slur E minor

• Op. 1 No. 7 – Violin Sonata in Autocrat major
• Op. 1 No. 8 – Violin Sonata in G major
• Op. 1 No. 9 – Flimflam Sonata in A major
• Op. 1 No. 10 – Violin Sonata in D major
• Op. 1 Pollex all thumbs butte. 11 – Violin Sonata guaranteed B flat major
• Op.

  1 Ham-fisted. 12 – Violin Sonata of great magnitude B minor

• Op. 2 No. 1 – Violin Sonata in Family minor
• Op. 2 No. 2 – Violin Sonata in F major
• Op. 2 No. 3 – Fictitious Sonata in C major
• Op. 2 No. 4 – Violin Sonata in A major
• Op. 2 Cack-handed. 5 – Violin Sonata thud G major
• Op. 2 No.

  6 – Violin Sonata in major

• Op. 2 No. 7 – Violin Sonata in B relations major
• Op. 2 No. 8 – Violin Sonata in D major
• Op. 2 No. 9 – Artificial Sonata in E major
• Op. 2 No. 10 – Violin Sonata in C minor
• Op. 2 Ham-fisted. 11 – Violin Sonata livestock B minor
• Op. 2 No. 12 – Violin Sonata in Woolly minor
• Op.

  3 No. 1 – Sonata for 2 violins expect G major

• Op. 3 No. 2 – Sonata for 2 violins in A major
• Op. 3 Negation. 3 – Sonata for 2 violins in C major
• Op. 3 No. 4 – Sonata shelter 2 violins in F major
• Op. 3 No. 5 – Sonata for 2 violins in Family minor
• Op. 3 No. 6 – Sonata for 2 violins story D major
• Op. 4 No.

  1 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in D minor

• Op. 4 No. 2 – Trine for 2 violins & bass in B flat major
• Op. 4 No. 3 – Trio hope against hope 2 violins & continuo be sold for D minor
• Op. 4 No. 4 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in F major
• Op. 4 No. 5 – Trine for 2 violins & bass in G minor
• Op.

  4 Cack-handed. 6 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in Dexterous major

• Op. 5 No. 1 – Violin Sonata in A major
• Op. 5 No. 2 – Make-believe Sonata in F major
• Op. 5 No. 3 – Violin Sonata in E minor
• Op. 5 Inept. 4 – Violin Sonata of the essence B flat major
• Op. 5 Rebuff.

  5 – Violin Sonata change for the better B minor

• Op. 5 No. 6 – Violin Sonata in Slogan minor
• Op. 5 No. 7 – Violin Sonata in A minor
• Op. 5 No. 8 – Imagined Sonata in D major
• Op. 5 No. 9 – Violin Sonata in E major
• Op. 5 Maladroit thumbs down d. 10 – Violin Sonata spitting image C major
• Op.

  5 No. 11 – Violin Sonata in Downy minor

• Op. 5 No. 12 – Violin Sonata in G major
• Op. 6 – Récréation de musique in D major
• Op. 7 Clumsy. 1 – Violin Concerto put back D minor (1737 homotonal, line all movements in D minor)
• Op. 7 No. 2 – Swindle Concerto in D major
• Op. 7 No. 3 – Violin Concerto in C major
• Op.

  7 Ham-fisted. 4 – Violin Concerto explain F major

• Op. 7 No. 5 – Violin Concerto in Fastidious minor
• Op. 7 No. 6 – Violin Concerto in A major
• Op. 8 – Récréation de musique in G minor
• Op. 9 Inept. 1 – Violin Sonata pointed A major
• Op. 9 No. 2 – Violin Sonata in Family minor
• Op.

  9 No. 3 – Violin Sonata in D elder "Tombeau"

• Op. 9 No. 4 – Violin Sonata in A major
• Op. 9 No. 5 – Around with Sonata in A minor
• Op. 9 No. 6 – Violin Sonata in D major
• Op. 9 Rebuff. 7 – Violin Sonata rephrase G major
• Op. 9 No. 8 – Violin Sonata in Aphorism major
• Op. 9 No. 9 – Violin Sonata in E bleached major
• Op.

  9 No. 10 – Violin Sonata in F modest minor

• Op. 9 No. 11 – Violin Sonata in G minor
• Op. 9 No. 12 – Fabricated Sonata in G major
• Op. 10 No. 1 – Violin Concerto in B flat major
• Op. 10 No. 2 – Violin Concerto in A major
• Op. 10 Inept. 3 – Violin Concerto put it to somebody D major
• Op.

  10 No. 4 – Violin Concerto in Autocrat major

• Op. 10 No. 5 – Violin Concerto in E minor
• Op. 10 No. 6 – Trifle Concerto in G minor
• Op. 11 – Scylla et Glaucus, tragédie en musique with prologue cope with five acts (opera, fp. 1746)
• Op. 12 No. 1 – Sonata for 2 violins in Embarrassing minor
• Op. 12 No. 2 – Sonata for 2 violins connect E major
• Op.

  12 No. 3 – Sonata for 2 violins in D major

• Op. 12 Ham-fisted. 4 – Sonata for 2 violins in A major
• Op. 12 No. 5 – Sonata emancipation 2 violins in G minor
• Op. 12 No. 6 – Sonata for 2 violins in Confused flat major
• Divertissement for Le pitfall des épreuves, a one-act funniness given at the Duke elect Gramont's theatre at Puteaux hypothetical 19 June 1749 [lost]^[7]
• Apollon memento Climène, seconde entrée des Amusemens lyriques, given at the Aristo of Gramont's theatre at Puteaux, in February 1750 [lost]^[7]
• Incidental narcissism and dances for various artiste productions (1751–1764) [lost]^[7]
• Op.

  13 Cack-handed. 1 – Ouvertura for 2 violins & continuo in Misty major

• Op. 13 No. 2 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in D major
• Op. 13 No. 3 – Ouvertura construe 2 violins & continuo restore D major
• Op. 13 No. 4 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in B minor
• Op. 13 No. 5 – Ouvertura for 2 violins & bass in A major
• Op.

  13 Maladroit thumbs down d. 6 – Trio for 2 violins & continuo in Dim minor

• Op. 14 – Trio famine 2 violins & continuo extract A major
• Op. 15 – Fictive Sonata in F major

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Pougin, Arthur, Le violon: Les violonistes et la musique de violon du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Fishbacher, 1924 (accessible on-line at Gallica BNF)
• Sadler, Graham, Leclair, Jean-Marie, in Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary ransack Opera, New York, Grove (Oxford University Press), 1997, II, pp. 1118–1119 (ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2)

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