Choreographer

Michel de la Barre

French composer and flautist

Born 1675 · ParisDied 1743France
Michel de la Barre
Image: Hyacinthe Rigaud · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Michel de la Barre was a French choreographer, born in 1675 in Paris, who died in 1743.

Biography

Michel de la Barre (c. 1675 – 15 March 1745) was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music. He played at the Académie Royale de Musique, the Musettes and Hautbois de Poitou and the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV.

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Contemporaries

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