{"id":2178,"date":"2020-07-29T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:58:50","slug":"boismortier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/boismortier\/","title":{"rendered":"Boismortier Sheet Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boismortier Sheet Music and Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
23 Dec 1689 – 28 Oct 1755<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French composer born on 23rd December 1689 in Thionville. He was a baroque composer of instrumental, opera ballets, cantatas, and vocal music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Op.6 Sonata for Flute duo in B minor<\/a> is a delightful composition for two traverse flutes. We have three arrangements<\/a> on our site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is famous for writing the first solo concerto in 1729 for any instrument a concerto for cello, viol or bassoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career and Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He became very rich in his mid-thirties by securing a royal license as an engraver enabling him to publish his own music and sell it to the public. He wrote for many amateur musicians and their instruments and voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boismortier spent the first part of his life in Metz then moved to Paris in 1723 with his wife Marie Valette. Aiming to write popular music to please the listener he had published more than one hundred works by 1747 which made him very wealthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died in Roissy-en-Brie<\/a> on 28th Oct 1755 at the age of sixty-five,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One piece that is still performed today is Boismortier’s Deuxieme serenade ou simphonie, which you can listen to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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