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Grove Music Online
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NEAL ZASLAW; 'Jean-Benoît Leclair', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 4 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Jean-Benoît Leclair
(b Lyons, 25 Sept 1714; d after 1759). Comédien, violinist and composer, brother of Jean-Marie Leclair. He appeared, with his father and two older brothers, among the musicians performing in the annual Vœu du Roi in Lyons on 8 August 1735. On 1 August 1736 the city of Moulins engaged him as director of its newly formed Académie de Musique and offered a position to his fiancée, Catherine (Pierrette) de la Porte: the couple married a fortnight later in Moulins. Their contract was to run ‘until 1 January 1738 at least’; by July 1737, however, they had left Moulins, and by February 1739 were back in Lyons, where they had a daughter and were proprietors of a shop.
Nearly a decade later Leclair was head of a travelling troupe of actors, dancers and musicians. His troupe played at Leuven in 1748, at Brussels and Liège in 1749, at Ghent in 1750, at Liège again in 1750–51, at Utrecht in 1751 and finally at Liège once more in 1758–9. His activity as composer is known only from the libretto of a divertissement performed on 27 April 1749 in Brussels to celebrate the return of Duke Charles of Lorraine from the negotiation of a peace treaty. The work, a ballet héroïque entitled Le retour de la paix dans les Pays-Bas (B. de la Roche), was composed and directed by Leclair, and the dancers included three of his children."
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