Trial, Jean Claude

TRIAL, Jean Claude, French composer, born at Avignon, Dec. 13, 1732, was educated at the Maitrise, and early studied the violin, for which his first compositions were intended. Settling in Paris he became intimate with Rameau, and was taken up by the Prince de Conti, who made him conductor of his own music, and procured him the joint-directorship with Berton of the Opéra (1767). He composed ‘Esope à Cythère’ (1766), and ‘La Fěte de Flore’ (1771), each in one...