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:''For the composer of the same name born in 1958, see :fr:Jean-Baptiste Barrière ( *1958).'' Jean-Baptiste Barrière (2 May 1707 – 6 June 1747) was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age. ==Musical career== Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas. In due course however he became a skilled cellist during a period when the cello was gaining popularity over the viol in France, and later came to completely replace it, as indeed had already happened in Italy some 40 years prior. He became one of the best known virtuoso cellists of his time. In 1731 he went to Paris, and entered the Academie Royale de Musique (also known as the Opera), with an annual salary of 445 livres. He was accorded special privileges by King Louis XV at Fontainebleau, on 22 October 1733 for six years, to compose and publish several sonatas and other instrumental works.〔These ''letters of privilege'' are registered on the Register VIII of the Chambre Royale et Syndicale de la Librarie et Imprimerie of Paris〕 One of his most famous pupils was the Count of Guergorlay, Seigneur of Trousily. After his first book ''Livre I - Sonates pour violoncelle et basse continue'' was a success, in November 1733, he published a second edition of it in 1740. His second book, ''Livre II'', was published around 1735. He went to Italy in 1736 to study with the well-known Italian cellist Francesco Alborea, known as Franciscello, who during that time seems to have also been employed in Vienna from 1726 until 1739.〔''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', by Fétis, published in Paris, 1860〕 He undertook a further long tour in Italy in April 1737 and returned to Paris in summer of 1738, to appear at the renowned Concert Spirituel on 15 August and 8 September where he impressed his audience with "grand precision", according to the local press.〔''Mercure de France'', September 1738〕 In 1739, a new 12-year privilege was granted to him at Versailles, and registered on 5 January 1740. In that year he published his ''Livre III'', and other works followed suit the following year. He died at a relatively young age of 40 years, at the pinnacle of his creativity. Whilst not well known to the general public today, Barrière was so renowned a few years after his death that Pierre-Louis Daquin de Chateau-Lyon did not hesitate to describe him as: ''the famous Barrière, deceased only recently, possessed all that one can desire...few could perform as well as he''.〔''Siecle litteraire de Louis XV ou Lettres sur les hommes celebres'', by Pierre-Louis Daquin de Chateau-Lyon, published in 1753〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Baptiste Barrière」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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