Antoine-Laurent Baudron (15 May 1742 – 1834), was a French musician and composer.

Career

Born in

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, Baudron studied in the local Jesuit college and then moved to Paris to study the violin with

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. In 1763 or 1764 he became a member of the orchestra of the Comédie Française where he became head violinist ("premier violon") in 1766. He soon began to write incidental music for the company's plays and was the first to write music to

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's plays

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and

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. Baudron is mainly remembered for having been the first to introduce instrumental interludes between the acts of a play that took up the mood of the scenes on the stage. These were realised at the Comédie Française from 1777 onwards.Gribenski (1999). He also wrote the first known French string quartets (in 1768). He retired around 1822 and died in

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Bibliography

* Thomas Bauman and Marita McClymands: ''Opera and the Enlightenment'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

References

External links

* http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BaudronAntoineLaurent.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20080415224152/http://www.musisca-publishing.co.uk/ 1742 births 1834 deaths 18th-century French classical composers 19th-century French classical composers French male classical violinists Comédie-Française 19th-century French violinists 19th-century French male musicians French Classical-period composers French male classical composers People from Amiens French string quartet composers 18th-century French violinists 18th-century French male musicians {{france-composer-stub