Jean-Benoit Leclair
Jean-Benoit Leclair is a Musicien and Danseur French born with Lyon the September 24th 1714. He is the younger brother of the Violoniste and Compositeur Jean-Marie Leclair.
Engaged like “symphonist” with the Academy of music of Mills in 1736, it there remains until in 1739 and goes back to Lyon.
One finds it in 1744 with Toulouse, like Maître to dance. Going up towards north, it arrives in the Austrian Netherlands in 1747: after a short passage to Leuwen, it tries to obtain the direction of the Théâtre of the Currency (Brussels), but is isolated with the profit of Favart, to which it marshal of Saxony entrusts the direction of an important troop.
After the departure of the French Armies, Leclair reaches the coveted station finally and, the April 27th 1749, it assembles the Return of Peace in the Netherlands , “heroic Ballet” at the time of the return of Charles of Lorraine as governor of the Netherlands.
Leclair obtains then the direction of the theaters of Liege, Ghent and Utrecht (1749 - 1751), before being established in Holland ($the Hague and Amsterdam). Regaining Liege in 1758, it again directs the theater lasting there one season. It made there give a “new comedy” of Jacques Teisserenc, the Woman philosophizes , “which were not represented nowhere”. One loses then his trace.
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