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Grove Music Online
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MICHEL NOIRAY: 'Chartrain, Nicolas-Joseph', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 1 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Chartrain [Chartrin], ? Nicolas-Joseph
(b Liège, 1740; d ?Paris, 1793). Flemish composer and violinist. Recent investigations show that most of the biographical information on Chartrain given in musical dictionaries is merely conjecture (including his first name). The one certainty is that he was successful from 1772 to 1783 at the Concert Spirituel as a violinist and composer of concertos and symphonies. A review in the Mercure de France (February 1779) concluded that he had ‘done for the violin what M. [Armand-Louis] Couperin did for the organ 20 years ago’and praised his compositional style. His preferred field was instrumental music, as can be seen from his published works. The music of his first opera, Le lord supposé, seems to have met with approval despite a mediocre libretto. L'avocat Patelin was a success."
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