Classification · France
1745 – 1799
Guadalupe - Paris
Review
The son of a French goalkeeper and a enslaved African woman in Guadalupe was educated in Paris, where he stood out as the best sgrimist in France and as a virtuous violinist.
He led the Concert des Amateurs and, with the Concert de la Loge Olympique, commissioned and premiered the symphonies «Paris» Haydn. During the Revolution he was a colonel of a regiment of black and mulate soldiers. His brilliant music has come back to the rooms in recent years.
Main works
- String quarters op. 1 (1773), among the first of France
- Concerts for violin op. 2, 5, 7 and 8
- Concerting symphonies
- Two symphonies op. 11
- Opera L'Amant anonyme (1780)
- Songs for violin
