Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, or Lemoyne, (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ləmwan]; 3 April 1751 – 30 December 1796) was a French composer, chiefly of operas. Born in Eymet, Dordogne, he first worked as a musician in Berlin and Warsaw, where in 1775 he produced his first opera, Le bouquet de Colette, starring his pupil Antoinette de Saint-Huberty (née Clavel). He returned to France and wrote the tragi… More