Biography of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
23.12.1689
Born in Thionville (Moselle)
1713
Collector for the Royal Tobacco Excise Office in Perpignan
1720
Moves to Metz and marriage with Marie Valette
29.02.1724
Get´s the Royal privilege to publish sheet music
1727
Six Concerti for 5 flutes
1740
Writes the today lost flute method Prinipes de flûte
28.10.1755
Dies in Roissy-en-Brie
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Sheet music for flute:
Sonate opus XXXIV/6 (a-moll)
(3 flutes (3 violins (3 recorders)), cello, piano)
Schott Verlag, CON 31
Rating: easy
- Adagio
- Allegro
- Largo
- Allegro
Suite 35, No. 2 (G-Dur)
(flute, cello basso continuo, piano basso continuo)
Schott Verlag, FTR 16
Rating: easy
- Prelude (Lentement)
- Bourree
- Musette en Rondeau (Gracieusement)
- Gigue
- Rigaudon
- 2e Rigaudon
First edition in Paris 1731
CDs with/from Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
The Soloists o Concert Spirituel
Boismortier - Six Concertos for Five Flutes (1997)
- Adagio (02:56:00)
- Allegro (02:42:00)
- Allegro (02:51:00)
- Allegro (02:02:00)
- Adagio (03:04:00)
- Allegro (03:02:00)
- Allegro (02:57:00)
- Largo (02:40:00)
- Allegro (02:48:00)
- Allegro (02:16:00)
- Affettuoso (02:04:00)
- Allegro (03:10:00)
- Adagio (02:42:00)
- Allegro (02:19:00)
- Allegro (03:45:00)
- Adagio (03:27:00)
- Allegro (02:16:00)
- Allegro (02:34:00)
Concerto in E minor op. 15, No. 6:
Concerto in D major, op. 15 No. 3:
Concerto in A minor, op. 15 No. 2:
Concerto in A major, op. 15, No.5:
Concerto in B minor, op. 15, No. 4:
Concerto in G major, op. 15, No. 1:
Literature von/über Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
- Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
Last edit 28.04.2020