Jean-Claude Trial
Illustration — Fire at the main hall of the Académie Royale de Musique at the Palais Royal 6 April 1763 Jean-Claude Trial (13 December 1732 - 23 June 1771) was a French composer and, with Pierre Montan Berton, co-director of the Académie Royale de Musique 1767-1771, following François Francœur and François Rebel and preceding Antoine Dauvergne and Nicolas-René Joliveau. It was during his and Berton's directorship that the main hall at the Palais Royal burned down on 6 April 1763. Trial was born in Avignon, Papal States.
Jean-Claude Trial
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- Born
- 1732 · Avignon.
- Died
- 1771 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · choreographer · violinist · theatre manager · opera director
- Fields
- opera
- Movements
- classical music
- Teachers
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Languages
- French
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His opera Silvie, 1765, co-written with Pierre Montan Berton, was the last pastorale héroïque to be written by French composers. He died in Paris, aged 38, shortly after the destruction of the hall.
• Sylvie, Fontainebleau 1765 • Théonis ou Le Toucher, Académie Royale de Musique, November 10, 1767
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