Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville explained

Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville, seigneur de Fresneuse, (born 1674 in Rouen where he died 9 November 1707) was a French magistrate and musicographer.

Le Cerf de La Viéville entered the magistracy and became keeper of the seals of the Parliament of Normandy.

Works

He is the author of some polemical writings on musical, historical and literary questions including:

His brother, the monk bibliographer Jean-Philippe Le Cerf de La Viéville, devoted a notice to him.

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Notes and References

  1. La Camparaison is available on Gallica (1704 an 1705). Modern édition by Carl B Schmidt: Geneva, Minkoff, 1993,
  2. These dissertations have been reprinted in Histoire de la musique by Pierre Bonnet-Bourdelot