Jean marie leclair biography of rory allen

Post a Comment. Friday, June 10, Jean-Marie Leclair. He is frequently mentioned as having founded the French violin school of violin playing, whatever that may be.

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His three younger brothers were also musicians. Leclair is now remembered as one of the very, very few violinists who died a violent death — he was assassinated at age The culprit was never found out. Little is otherwise known about his early years. In , he was a dancer with the Lyons Opera and married a fellow dancer in the same opera company Marie Rose Casthanie on the first of February that same year.

He was 19 years old. He became a principal dancer with the Turin Opera in In October of , he returned to Paris — which he had previously visited on and off - and played at the Concerts Spirituel, where he was well-received. He also published his Opus 1, a set of violin sonatas that same year. The publication was sponsored by a wealthy patron Joseph Bonnier to whom the works were, understandably, dedicated.

In he again visited Turin where he worked as a dancer and choreographer with the Turin Opera and took violin lessons from Giovanni Battista Somis. In , he returned to Paris. He gave up that post in after quarreling with a colleague someone named Jean-Pierre Guignon, also known as Giovanni Pietro Ghignone. From until , he worked three months out of the year at The Hague for the Princess Anne of Orange, a former harpsichord pupil of Handel.