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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1but a subordinate situation in the opera orchestra with a yearly salary of some five hundred livres.
3It is true that in 1731 he became a royal musician but unfortunately for him the enmity of the violinist Guignon hindered his artistic inclinations and he relinquished all his offices. He then occupied himself by teaching and composing; and for a long time remained quiet and as it were inactive, seeking for his friends only those who were real artists without any aim at gathering in material profit. Once he went to Amsterdam to visit Locatelli, and it seems that the latter exercised some influence on his manner and style of composition.
5Leclair's end was as untimely as it was mysterious; he was foully murdered in the neighbourhood of his dwelling about eleven o'clock on the night of the 22nd October, 1764—the name of his assassin has never transpired, nor has his object, which, it is thought, was jealousy.
7Leclair left a mass of compositions, including forty-eight sonatas, duos, trios, concertos for three violins, viola, violoncello and organ bass, overtures and sonatas as trios for two violins and bass, a posthumous sonata and an opera. Two of his sonatas Ferdinand David arranged, edited and published in his Hohe Schule des Violinspiels, whilst Alard issued through Schotts an edition which is far more faithful to the original.
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