Théodore-Jean Tarade

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Théodore-Jean Tarade (born November 1, 1731 in Paris , † September 14, 1788 in La Flèche ) was a French violinist and composer of the pre-classical period .

Life

Théodore-Jean Tarade was a member of the Académie royale de musique orchestra from 1751 , of which he was a member until his retirement in 1776. He made his debut as a soloist in 1754 with a violin concerto by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville at the Concert spirituel . In 1757 he had two more solo appearances at the Concert spirituel in a duo with Jacques Lemière. On July 15, 1765, his Opéra comique La réconciliation Villageoise was successfully performed in the Comédie-Italiènne. 1767 married Tarade the Notenstecherin Françoise-Marie Dutartre, with whom he jointly opened a music shop. In addition to this activity, Tarade mainly gave violin lessons. After the business collapsed in 1783, he became a violin teacher in 1785 at the military school Collège royal Henri-le-Grand in La Flèche.

Work (selection)

In addition to his stage work, he arranged well-known French opera arias for voice or flute and basso continuo. In his Traité du violon he describes the technique and performance practice of his previous generation of violinists, such as Jean-Baptiste Senaillé , Jean-Pierre Guignon and Jean-Marie Leclair .

Instrumental works
  • Six sonatas op.1 for violin and bc ( qui peuvent se jouer sur le pardessus de viole , can be played on the treble viol) 1761
  • Premier Recueil des plus beaux airs for 2 violins
  • Suite de Noels en quatuor (possibly lost)
  • Concertante symphony for 2 violins, viola and orchestra (lost)
  • Les amusements d'un violon seul ou 2ie Recueil d'airs connus
Textbooks
  • Nouveaux principes de musique et du violon (lost), excerpts preserved, in Jean-Baptiste Cartier's L'Art du violon from 1798.
  • Traité du violon (1774) reprinted in 1972
  • L'Art du violon (Paris, 1789)

literature

  • Théodore-Jean Tarade: Traité du violon, facsimile; Edition Minkoff Geneva 1972

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Description of the Comédie on the Operone website
  2. ↑ Robert Eitner: Sources dictionary of musicians and music scholars .....
  3. ^ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 16, pp. 501-502
personal data
SURNAME Tarade, Théodore-Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French violinist and classical composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1788
Place of death La Flèche