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Joseph Bodin de Boismotier
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal license for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for sale to the public. Biography The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets. The Boismortier family then followed Montigny and moved to Perpignan in 1713 where Boismortier found employment in the Royal Tobacco Control. Boismortier married Marie Valette, the daughter of a rich goldsmith and a relative of his teacher Montigny. In 1724 Boismortier and his wife moved to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, writing for many instruments and voices. He was prolific: his first works appeared in Paris in 1724, and by 1747 he had published more than 100 works in various vocal and instrumental combinations. His music, particularly for the voice, was extremely popular and made him wealthy without the aid of patrons. He died in Roissy-en-Brie. Boismortier was the first French composer to use the Italian concerto form, in his six concertos for five flutes op. 15. (1727). He also wrote the first French solo concerto for any instrument, a concerto for cello, viol, or bas
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Trio in A minor, Op. 37/5: II. Largo
722Trio in A minor, Op. 37/5: III. Allegro
653Trio in A minor, Op. 37/5: I. Vivace
654Trio in A minor, op. 37, No. 5: I Vivace
15Trio in A minor, op. 37, No. 5: II Largo
16Trio in A minor, op. 37, No. 5: III Allegro
17Trio in A minor, Op. 37_5_ II. Largo
18Trio in A minor, Op. 37_5_ I. Vivace
19Trio in A minor, Op. 37_5_ III. Allegro
110Trio in A minor op. 37, no. 5: Vivace
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