A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/de la Borde, Jean

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1505433A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — de la Borde, JeanGeorge GroveJ. A. Fuller-Maitland

DE LA BORDE, Jean Benjamin, born in Paris Sept. 5, 1734, became a pupil of D'Auvergne for the violin, and of Rameau for composition, and ultimately attained great eminence as an amateur composer. He wrote nearly fifty operas of a more or less trifling kind, many songs for single voice, and several works on music, among which the 'Essai sur la Musique ancienne et moderne' (1780), is the most important. He was guillotined July 22, 1794.

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