Choreographer

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

French composer (1689-1755)

Born 1689 · ThionvilleDied 1755France
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French choreographer, born in 1689 in Thionville, who died in 1755.

Biography

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of chamber music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for sale to the public.

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Contemporaries

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