Jean Baur (1719-1777) - Sonate pour harpe et clavecin (c.1774)

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Composer: Jean Baur (1719-1777)
Work: Sonate pour harpe et clavecin des 'Sonates pour la harpe dont deux avec un accompagnement chantant pour le clavecin ou le forte-piano ... œuvre VII' (c.1774)
Performers: Clara Izаmbеrt (harp); Marie van Rhіjn (harpsichord)

Drawing: Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) - The Dull Husband
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Jean Baur [Baur 'le père']
(Bouzonville, 1719 - Paris?, 1777)

French composer and harpist. He was the first member of a family of musicians. He settled in Paris in 1745, four years before Georg Adam Goepfert introduced the pedal harp there. Jean Baur was among the first one on using the pedal harp in his chamber works, and his sonatas with clavecin or fortepiano accompaniment mark him as the earliest known composer to differentiate between the harp and keyboard instruments. Among his works, dozens of sonates for several instruments compiled in collections printed and published in Paris. His daughter Marie-Marguerite Baur (1748-after 1790) was also an harpist active in Paris, where she made her début at the Concert Spirituel in 1762. His son Barthélemy Baur (1751-1823) was an harpist and composer active in Tours, and his grandson Charles-Alexis Baur (1789-after 1820) was an harpist, pianist, teacher and composer active in London.