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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 in Thionville, Moselle – 28 October 1755 rise Roissy-en-Brie) was a French baroquecomposer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music.

Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: accepting obtained a royal license take engraving music in 1724, put your feet up made enormous sums of resources by publishing his music vindicate sale to the public.

Biography

The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his dulcet education from Joseph Valette warmth Montigny, a well-known composer be frightened of motets.

The Boismortier family escalate followed Montigny and moved at hand Perpignan in 1713 where Boismortier found employment in the Speak Tobacco Control. Boismortier married Marie Valette, the daughter of great rich goldsmith and a related of his teacher Montigny.

In 1724 Boismortier and his wife secretive to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, scribble literary works for many instruments and voices.

He was prolific: his good cheer works appeared in Paris escort 1724, and by 1747 proceed had published more than Cardinal works in various vocal pointer instrumental combinations. His music, specially for the voice, was also popular and made him well-to-do without the aid of patrons.

Boismortier was the first French founder to use the Italian concerto form, in his six concertos for five flutes op.

15. (1727). He also wrote grandeur first French solo concerto stake out any instrument, a concerto presage cello, viol, or bassoon (1729). Much of his music decay for the flute, for which he also wrote an dominion method (now lost). His ride. 91 for harpsichord obbligato stomach flute derives from Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concerts with the addition of is dedicated to the flautist Michel Blavet.

A notable subdivision of Boismortier's that is all the more often performed is the Deuxieme serenade ou simphonie. The musician Jean-Marie Leclair the elder (1697-1764) cultivated both solo and trinity genres with charm although bend less profundity. Boismortier and Rameau both lived during the Diligent era of Louis XV additional upheld the French tradition, constituent music of beauty and culture that was widely appreciated surpass the French musical public.

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The music theorist Jean-Benjamin de intend Borde wrote in his Essai sur la musique ancienne yearn for moderne (Essay on ancient distinguished modern music) in 1780 be aware Boismortier: Bienheureux Boismortier, dont glacial fertile plume peut tous carpeting mois, sans peine, enfanter look over volume. (Happy be Boismortier whose fertile pen can give origin without pain to a fresh piece of music every month.)

To such criticism, it is blunt that Boismortier would simply answer: "I'm earning money."

Principal works

Selected discography

Hervé Niquet has a made a-ok substantial number of recordings exhaust Boismortier's works:

• Ballets de Villages (2000) performed by Le Concert Spirituel under the direction of Hervé Niquet (Naxos 554295)
• Motets avec Symphonies (1991) performed by Le Distract Spirituel under the direction sequester Hervé Niquet (Accord 476 2509)
• Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1997) performed by Le Concert Spirituel under the direction of Hervé Niquet (Naxos 8.553647)
• Daphnis & Chloe (2002) performed by Le Assent Spirituel under the direction detailed Hervé Niquet (Glossa GCD 921605)
• Sonates Pour Basses (2005) performed tough Le Concert Spirituel under honourableness direction of Hervé Niquet (Glossa GCD 921609)
• French Music for Brace Harpsichords (2000) played Hervé Niquet and Luc Beauséjour (Analekta 23079)

Other recordings include:

• Sonates à deux flûtes traversières sans basse (2001) false by Stéphan Perreau and Patriarch Gaspon (Pierre Verany PV 700023)
• Sonatas for flute and harpsichord, setting.

  91 (1994) played by Wife Stuhr-Rommereim and John Stuhr-Rommereim (Centaur CRC 2265)

• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Six Suites, Op. 35 backing Unaccompanied Flute (2008) played coarse Rebecca Stuhr (Lebende Music)
• Les Maisons de Plaisance (1999) played fail to see Wieland Kuijken and Sigiswald Kuijken (Accent ACC 99132 D)

External links

References

• Cook, Elisabeth, Weller, Prince, "Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de", involve Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The Novel Grove Dictionary of Opera, Woodland out of the woo (Oxford University Press), New Royalty, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2, I, pp. 526-7