Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste Moyne
(1751–1796)> COMPOSER
Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste Moyne DIT (3 April 1751, Périgord; 30 December 1796, Paris), composer, learned music from his uncle in Périgueux, where the latter was chapel master in the cathedral of this city. After leading an orchestra in various provinces of France, the wandering musician went to Berlin to study composition under Karl Heinrich Graun and Johann Philipp Kirnberger. He attracted considerable attention in the German capital by writing a French opera entitled Toinon et Toinette for which…