Antoine-Laurent Baudron [SEP] place of death
Antoine-Laurent Baudron
Antoine-Laurent Baudron (1742 in Amiens – 1834 in Paris), was a French musician and composer. He was the head violinist in the orchestra of the Comédie Française, and wrote the original music for The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais. He also wrote the first known French violin quartets.
References.
- "Opera and the Enlightenment", by Thomas Bauman and Marita McClymands, Cambridge UP, 2006.
External links.
- http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BaudronAntoineLaurent.htm
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The Barber of Seville (play)
The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution () is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries.