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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Neal ZASLAW: 'Jean-Marie Leclair [le second; le cadet]', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 4 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Jean-Marie Leclair [le second; le cadet]
(b Lyons, 23 Sept 1703; d Lyons, 30 Nov 1777). Violinist and composer, brother of Jean-Marie Leclair. In 1732 the city councillors of Besançon engaged him as director of their Académie de Musique, but the city fathers of Lyons lured him back after less than a year with the offer of an annual pension. In return Leclair agreed to remain at Lyons as music director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and to teach the violin to anyone requiring lessons. […]
On 25 January 1748 he married Jeanne-Suzanne Crus de la Chesnée; they had a son in 1749 and a daughter in 1751. […] The rest of his life was spent in Lyons. The syndics of the Lyons Concert named him secretary in perpetuity and from time to time performed his works. There is mention of such works as Le Rhône et la Saône, a ‘Divertissement champêtre’(1736), and in 1768 a ‘symphony’, some arias and a motet, but all of these works are lost.
Leclair's published music suggests that he was an excellent violinist as well as an able composer. […] The style of the music is close to that of Jean-Marie l’aîné."
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