Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary

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Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary was a French violinist and composer active in the eighteenth century, whose long life spanned from 14 September 1707 in Maroilles to 30 October 1802 in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He received his earliest musical training in Valenciennes, where he entered the Chapelle Saint-Pierre as an apprentice at the age of sixteen, appearing in local musical accounts by 1723; by the mid-1720s he had become a leading member of the ensemble there. In 1734 he married Marie-Madeleine Wyscart in Valenciennes, and following her death he remarried in Boulogne-sur-Mer, after which he briefly resided in that town before returning to Valenciennes and resuming his position as first violin at Saint-Pierre until about 1779. In his later years Lamoninary settled definitively in Boulogne, where he taught violin and singing and continued his musical activity, though records suggest he lived in modest circumstances toward the end of his life. As a composer, Lamoninary was principally associated with the Italianate trio sonata and chamber genres that flourished in mid-eighteenth-century France. From about 1749 he published several works for two violins and basso continuo, beginning with his Six Sonates pour deux violons avec la basse, Op. I, and followed by further sets of trio sonatas and chamber works in subsequent years; later in his career he composed a set of symphonic quartets for strings and organ. His music reflects both the “galant” style then current and the influence of Itali

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Lamoninary: 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1

6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (Hemiolia)

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