Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (5 September 1734 – 22 July 1794) was a French composer, writer on music and fermier général (farm tax collector). Born...

[tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth...

Benjamin Lavernhe (French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ lavɛʁn], born 14 August 1984) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than sixteen films since 2009...

Amadis de Gaule is an opera by the French composers Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique...

Antoinette and the wife of the influential former fermier-general, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. His attempts to reform this aging institution that was the Paris...

in Thesaurus Linguarum Orientalium (1680) and later by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde in Essai sur la Musique Ancienne et Moderne (1780), is that the syllables...

divertissement of the pastorale La Cinquantaine (written by Desfontaines-Lavallée and set to music by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde) in 1772 and was immediately...

Depp as Louis XV, the King of France Benjamin Lavernhe as Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, the King's premier valet de la chambre and a close confidant of Jeanne's...

stream of highly placed admirers, including the gentleman composer Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, with whom she had a daughter in April 1763, and who always remained...

Regiment, Saint-Marc wrote the libretto for Adèle de Ponthieu, a 1772 opera by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton, and a 1781 opera by Niccolò...

La Boëssière, Antoine (1818). Traité de l'art des armes à l'usage des professeurs et des amateurs (in French). Paris: Didot. La Borde, Jean-Benjamin (1780)...

Adèle de Ponthieu is an opera by the French composers Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique...

Frideric Handel Amadis de Gaule (La Borde and Berton), 1771 opera by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton Amadis de Gaule (J. C. Bach), 1779 opera...

XVIII century, in the works of Francisci a Mesgnien Meninski and Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. Modern scholars are mostly skeptical. In the Elizabethan era...

(1715) by George Frideric Handel Amadis de Gaule (1771) by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton Amadis de Gaule (1779) by Johann Christian Bach...

own designs, which included illustrations for the Chansons of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1773), the collected works of Rousseau (1773–82) and of Voltaire...

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...

a chanson by Michel Lambert (1610–1696) "Iris", a chanson by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734–1794) Iris, a concerto by Archibald Joyce (1873–1963) Iris...

by music historians of his day like Francesco Saverio Quadrio, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Charles Burney, Orlandini, along with Vivaldi, is considered...

painting was one of many sold in 1783 by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde a violinist and composer who had been premier valet de chambre for Louis XV. painting record...

with 21 keys to the octave using a tuning system suggested by Jean-Benjamin de la Borde. Sheridan Germann: 'Goermans [Germain]', Grove Music Online ed...

Adèle de Ponthieu is the name of several operas set to the same libretto: Adèle de Ponthieu (1772) by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton...

the middle, and the basses, brass, and percussion in the back. Jean-Benjamin de la Borde (1780) classified instruments according to ethnicity, his categories...

acts. The libretto, by Jean-Paul-André Razins de Saint-Marc, had been previously set by the composers Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton...

Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 373. Jean-Benjamin de la Borde, Essai sur la Musique, iii. 133 Eunapius, Life of Iamblichus and not...

his four famous "disaster paintings", which were purchased by Jean-Benjamin de la Borde on behalf of King Louis XV. In 1771, he exhibited two large canvases...

Isménias, ou La fête de Jupiter (Ismène and Isménias, or The Festival of Jupiter) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, first performed...

later. Lawyers were still trying to settle his affairs in 1790. Jean-Benjamin de la Borde called him "the most celebrated musette player France had ever...

accounts of his life derive from the recollections of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, in his Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne. At the age of seven, he...

music and wrote his system of harmony, which was published by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. His motet Vivat in æternum was performed during the coronation...