Tolbecque, Jean-Baptiste Joseph
(1797–1869)> COMPOSER
Tolbecque, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (17 April 1797, Hanzinne; 23 October 1869, Paris), composer, left his native Belgium to enter the Conservatoire in Paris on 12 April 1862. He studied violin under the direction of Rodolphe Kreutzer and counterpoint and fugue under Antoine Reicha (see eighteenth-century volume for Kreutzer). After playing for a biref period in the orchestra at the Italian opera house in the French capital, he decided to devote all his time to the composition and playing of dance…