Jean-Baptiste Venier was an 18th-century Parisian violinist and music publisher, active from 1750 to 1782.

Biography

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Title page of the series symphonies a più strumenti. Note that the page is common for all numbers: the attribution to Johann Christian Bach is added manually with the number of the collection, XII (Venier, 1762).

Giovanni Battista Venier, Frenchified as Jean-Baptiste, of Venetian origin, moved to Paris in the 1750s.[1] As a violinist, he performed at the Concert Spirituel and taught violin until 1782. He obtained a royal privilege for music publishing in 1755 and held until 1782, eventually selling his business to publisher Charles-Georges Boyer in 1784.[1]

First he had no shop but in 1760, his cabinet was located rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre, vis-à-vis Château d'Eau. After September 1778, he settled rue Traversière-Saint-Honoré to no loger move.[2]

Venier published many important works, focused exclusively on instrumental music, whether symphonies, concertos and chamber music. He published in particular a series of Sinfonie da varii autori,[3] publishing many authors as we can see from the title pages of these editions. From 1757 or 1758,[4] these symphonies were released by way of periodic, as did his colleagues Huberty and La Chevardière and sometimes in combination, but briefly.

Among the composers, the Italians were Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Gaetano Pugnani, Luigi Boccherini, of whom he gave the Opp. 2, and 4 to 9;[5] between 1767 and 1772,[6] the Germans, Viennese and the Bohemians were Johann Christian Bach, Haydn (including his Symphony No. 22, Der Philosoph with its adagio published en 1773), and others such as Filtz, Christian Joseph Lidarti, Franz Ignaz Beck, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Wagenseil, Ignaz Fränzl, Dittersdorf and Karl Joseph Toeschi, Valentin Roeser, Josef Mysliveček and Antonín Kammel... Pieter van Maldere; Gossec (Symphonies Op. 12) was among the French composers published by Venier.

His publications are commonly available from Castaud (Lyon).

Title page of Boccherini's Six Sonatas, Op. 5 (Venier, 1769)

References

  1. 1 2 Tortella, Jaime (2010). "Venier, Jean-Baptiste". Luigi Boccherini: Dictionary of Persons, Places, and Terms. UCLA: Department of Musicology. p. n.p.
  2. ↑ Cari Johansson (2001). "Venier, Jean Baptiste". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.29157. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  3. ↑ Alain Ruiz. Franz Beck, Un musicien des Lumières, p. 51, Pessac, Centre interdisciplinaire bordelais d'étude des Lumières, coll. "Lumières (Centre interdisciplinaire bordelais d'étude des Lumières)" (no. 2), 2004, (ISBN 2867813379, OCLC 55737310)
  4. ↑ Hild, Michel (2005). Réception de la musique instrumentale allemande en France (in French). Lille: Atelier national de reproduction des thèses. p. 60. ISBN 2284046738. OCLC 60452746.
  5. ↑ Annonce du Mercure de France pour l’opus VI
  6. ↑ Rudolf Rasch, Understanding Boccherini's Manuscripts, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, p. 3 (ISBN 1443856630, OCLC 880243613

Further reading

  • Anik Devriès et François Lesure, Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français : Des origines a environ 1820, vol. 1, Genève, Minkoff, coll. "Archives de l'édition musicale française" (no. 4, 1), 1979, 203 p. (ISBN 2826604538, OCLC 489130205)
  • Rudolf Rasch (ed.), Music Publishing in Europe 1600–1900 : Concepts and Issues Bibliography, Berlin, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, coll. "Musical life in Europe 1600–1900, Circulation of music" (no. 1), 2005, 314 p. (ISBN 3830503903, OCLC 60645798, read online
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