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Jean-Baptiste Volumier

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that he offered Marchand a lucrative court appointment. The story of what happened next has been much repeated in German sources (though never in French ones), with various embellishments. The key elements appear to be that Volumier, sensing the risk of trouble ahead, organised a keyboard (probably
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although some earlier sources indicate simply that he was born in Spain. As a young man he was schooled in music in Paris, possibly at the French court, and it was the then fashionable French style that he would follow as a performer and composer. Moving to Berlin, in 1692 he gained a position as a
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clavier) contest between Marchand and his friend Bach. However, Marchand became nervous at the prospect and early on the morning of the day scheduled for the contest left Dresden, never to return. Marchand's hasty departure strengthened the position at court of the chapel organist,
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joined the court orchestra. As time went on he became adept at blending the French and Italian styles, with an added frisson of German elements, creating something that came to be called the "mixed" or "German" style. The flautist
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had frequently to be called upon to deputise for him. Jean Baptiste Volumier died in October 1728. Starting two years later, in October 1730, his widow started to receive a twice yearly pension of 600
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Volumier composed a large amount of ballet music and numerous violin pieces. They were all destroyed in a fire in 1760 while the city was
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where for several months Volumier remained, in order to oversee the production of twelve violins ordered from the manufactory of
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that he had never heard a better orchestra than the Dresden orchestra under Volumier.
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Volumier was born in around 1670 or 1677; sources differ. He was probably born in the
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While he was employed in Dresden Volumier also developed a friendship with
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In 1709 he was taken on as concertmaster at the rival court of
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historical-critical contributions on the reception of music
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Index

violinist
composer
concertmaster
Spanish Flanders
Electorate of Brandenburg
concertmaster
Frederick William I of Prussia
Dresden
Thalers
Veracini
Pisendel
Johann Joachim Quantz
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
the Saxon king-elector
Cremona
Antonio Stradivarius
Bach
Louis Marchand
the king-elector
Christian Petzold
Jakob Adlung
Augustus the Strong
Saxony
Warsaw
Pisendel
Gulden
under siege
Frederick the Great

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