Composers

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

Flute
Violin
Voice
Oboe
Viol
Bassoon
Recorder
Cello
Harpsichord
Orchestra
Sonata
Suite
Secular cantatas
Cantatas
Piece
Concerto
Operas
Ballet
Motet
Serenade
by popularity

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12 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.132 Sérénades en trois parties, Op.394 Balets de village en trio, Op.524 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.785 Sonates en trio suivies d'un concerto, Op.375 Sonates suivies d'un concerto, Op.266 Concertos for 5 Flutes, Op.156 Flute Sonatas, Op.196 Flute Sonatas, Op.446 Flute Sonatas, Op.96 Flute Sonatas, Op.916 Gentillesses en 3 parties, Op.336 Sonatas for 2 Bassoons, Op.146 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.16 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.26 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.66 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op.86 Sonatas for 3 Flutes, Op.76 Sonatas for Flute and Violin, Op.516 Sonates à quatre parties, Op.346 Sonates dont la derniere est en trio, Op.506 Sonates en trio suivies de concertos, Op.286 Sonates suivies d'un nombre de pièces, Op.406 Suites à 2 Muzettes, Op.116 Suites à 2 Muzettes, Op.176 Suites and 2 Sonatas, Op.276 Suites de pièces, Op.359 Sonatas and Chaconne, Op.66

A

ActéonAirs sérieux et à boire, Op.16

C

Cello Concerto in D major, PB 377Concerto à cinque in E minor, PB 441

D

Daphnis et Chloé, Op.102Diane et ActéonDiverses pièces de viole avec la basse chiffrée, Op.31Diverses pièces, Op.22Do, do, l’enfant doDon Quichotte chez la duchesse, Op.97

E

Exaudiat te Dominus

F

Flute Sonata in A major, PB 329Flute Sonata in A minor, PB 330Flute Sonata in B minor, PB 328Flute Sonata in D major, PB 327Flute Sonata in E minor, PB 326Flute Sonata in G major, PB 325

H

Harpsichord Suite in A major, PB 539Harpsichord Suite in C minor, PB 536Harpsichord Suite in E minor, PB 538Harpsichord Suite in G minor, PB 537

I

Ixion

L

L’AutomneL’EtéL’HyverLe Buveur domptéLe PrintemsLes TitansLes Voyages de l'Amour, Op.60

M

Motets à voix seule mêlés de simphonies, Op.23

P

Pièces de clavecin, Op.59

Q

Quinque sur l'octave

S

Sonata for 3 Flutes in A major, PB 255Sonata for 3 Flutes in B minor, PB 254Sonata for 3 Flutes in D major, PB 253Sonata for 3 Flutes in D minor, PB 256Sonata for 3 Flutes in E minor, PB 258Sonata for 3 Flutes in G major, PB 257Sonatas for 2 Viols, Op.10Suite in E minor, PB 430

T

Trio Sonata in A minor, PB 440Trio Sonata in E minor, PB 437Trio Sonatas, Op.12
Wikipedia
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental 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.
The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets. The Boismortier family then followed Montigny and moved to Perpignan in 1713 where Boismortier found employment in the Royal Tobacco Control.
Boismortier married Marie Valette, the daughter of a rich goldsmith and a relative of his teacher Montigny. In 1724 Boismortier and his wife moved to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, writing for many instruments and voices. He was prolific: his first works appeared in Paris in 1724, and by 1747 he had published more than 100 works in various vocal and instrumental combinations. His music, particularly for the voice, was extremely popular and made him wealthy without the aid of patrons.
Boismortier was the first French composer to use the Italian concerto form, in his six concertos for five flutes op. 15. (1727). He also wrote the first French solo concerto for any instrument, a concerto for cello, viol, or bassoon (1729). Much of his music is for the flute, for which he also wrote an instruction method (now lost). Boismortier and Rameau both lived during the Rococo era of Louis XV and upheld the French tradition, composing music of beauty and sophistication that was widely appreciated. Although known as a composer, Bodin de Boismortier was also famed during his lifetime for his excessively inattentive and wandering mind that often kept him from conducting his own works.
His six sonatas for flute and harpsichord op. 91, first published in Paris in 1742, were printed with an homage to the celebrated French flautist and composer, Michel Blavet (1700-1768). Today, they are probably his most popular pieces, for they indeed show Boismortier at his most creative and graceful. A notable piece of Boismortier's that is still often performed is the Deuxieme serenade ou simphonie.
He died in Roissy-en-Brie, where, at his request, he was buried in the Eglise Saint Germain.
The playwright and novelist Suzanne Bodin de Boismortier was his daughter. A full-length biography on the composer, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, by Stephan Perreau, was published in France in 2001.
The music theorist Jean-Benjamin de la Borde wrote in his Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (Essay on ancient and modern music) in 1780 about Boismortier: Bienheureux Boismortier, dont la fertile plume peut tous les mois, sans peine, enfanter un volume. (Happy is Boismortier, whose fertile pen can give birth without pain to a whole new volume of music every month.)
In response to such comments, it is said that Boismortier would simply answer: "I'm earning money."
Hervé Niquet has a made a substantial number of recordings of Boismortier's works:
Other recordings include: