Rochefort, Jean-Baptiste
(1746–1819)> COMPOSER
Rochefort, Jean-Baptiste (24 June 1746, Paris; 1819, ?), composer, learned music as a child in the choir of Notre-Dame and entered the service of the Royal Academy of Music as a contrebassiste in 1775. The landgrave of Hessia supported a French opera company at Cassel, and Rochefort was invited to lead the orchestra of this group between 1780 and 1785. After the death of his protector, he returned to Paris to play the contrebasse and to become associate leader of the orchestra of the Royal…