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Jean- Marie Leclair

The founder of the French violin school.

Jean- Marie Leclair · Portrait (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
Jean- Marie Leclair · Portrait (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Baroque · France

1697 – 1764

Lyon - Paris

Review

Dancing and violinist, he joined French elegance with Italian virtuosism and founded the French violin school.

He was a musician at the court of Louis XV and worked in The Hague and Paris. He died in his house in Paris in 1764, a crime that was never solved.

Main works

  • Songs for violin, four books (1723-1738)
  • Songs in trio op. 4
  • Récréations de musique op. 6 y op. 8
  • Concerts for violin op. 7 and op. 10
  • Opera Scylla et Glaucus (1746)
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