Antoine-Laurent Baudron
Antoine-Laurent Baudron (15 May 1742 – 1834), was a French musician and composer.
Career
Born in Amiens, Baudron studied in the local Jesuit college and then moved to Paris to study the violin with Pierre Gaviniès.[1]
In 1763 or 1764 he became a member of the orchestra of the
Baudron is mainly remembered for having been the first to introduce instrumental interludes between the acts of a play that took up the mood of the scenes on the stage. These were realised at the Comédie Française from 1777 onwards.[2] He also wrote the first known French string quartets (in 1768). He retired around 1822 and died in Paris.
Bibliography
- Thomas Bauman and Marita McClymands: Opera and the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
References
External links
- http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BaudronAntoineLaurent.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080415224152/http://www.musisca-publishing.co.uk/
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