Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (died 1755)

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

French composer (1689–1755)

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money…