Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer)

Jean -Baptiste Lemoyne ( Moyne ) ( born April 3, 1751 Eymet, † December 30, 1796 in Paris) was a French composer.

He was raised by his uncle, who was Kapellmeister in Périgueux. In 1770 he went to Berlin and studied under J. G. Graun, KirnBerger and J.A.P. Schulz. After a stay in Warsaw, where his opera Le bouguet de colette premiered, he went in 1780 to Paris, to get his first serious opera Electre to Performance, which he dedicated to Marie Antoinette. Gluck, whose ideas would mimic the reform opera, the composer, distanced himself from the work, which was not well received. Lemoyne then turned to Niccolò Piccinni as a model to.

Although it fell through at its premiere, but is Electre Lemoynes most interesting work. It uses short and free forms with good effect and used musical material in a similar technique to the theme again. His style of the recitative is sometimes highly expressive, but the orchestration sometimes seems awkward, and the basic musical creativity seems questionable, particularly in non- declamatory, lyrical passages. Later, his technique was sophisticated but at the same time less original, and his operas excited hardly enthusiasm.