Jean-Marie Leclair was a French choreographer, ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1697 in Lyon, who died in 1764.
Biography
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder) (10 May 1697 – 22 October 1764) was a French Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. His brothers, the lesser-known Jean-Marie Leclair the younger (1703–77) as well as Pierre Leclair (1709–84) and Jean-Benoît Leclair (1714–after 1759), were also musicians.
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Contemporaries
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Adolphe Blaise
French actor, conductor, choreographer and composer (-1772)
François Colin de Blamont
French composer
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Jacques Aubert
French composer and violinist
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
French composer (1689-1755)
Marie Sallé
French ballet dancer
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Abbé de La Marre
French choreographer and librettist
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