Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray (born April 3, 1699 in Paris , † July 19 / August 15 ? 1782 ibid) was a French gambist and composer.
Life and works
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Forqueray came from a family of musicians. Like his father, Antoine Forqueray , Jean-Baptiste-Antoine was a child prodigy; at the age of five or six he was already playing for the king. As a popular virtuoso at court and in music salons, he aroused the jealousy of his father, who had him temporarily thrown in prison and expelled from France. In February 1726 Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray returned after two months of exile and continued his career as a musician in Versailles and at the Concerts Spirituels . In 1727 he went on tour with Jean-Pierre Guignon to Rennes and Nantes . He often came into contact with important figures from the French and foreign aristocracy.
In autumn 1737 Forqueray played his Nouveaux Quatuors together with Georg Philipp Telemann . In September 1742, he succeeded his father as court singer, which he held until 1761. Then he placed himself in the service of the Prince of Conti . After his death in 1776 he withdrew from musical life. Forqueray had two children from his second marriage to the well-known harpsichordist Marie-Rose Dubois .
Forqueray's original pièces de viole are a high point of the virtuoso viol tradition in France.
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| SURNAME | Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French gambist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1782 or August 15, 1782 |
| Place of death | Paris |