Jean Baptiste Senaillé (23 November 1687 – 15 October 1730) was a French born

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and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

virtuoso. His father was a member of

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. Senaillé studied under Jean-Baptiste Anet, Giovanni Antonio Piani and in Italy under Tomaso Antonio Vitali and imported Italian musical techniques and pieces into the French court. He wrote around 50 violin

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s. He is most well known for a fast 2/4 movement from one of these sonatas, ''Allegro spiritoso'', which has had versions published transcribed for a wide variety of instruments, from

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to euphonium. Some of these transcriptions were edited by Robin De Smet.

Selected recordings

* ''Premier Livre de Sonates à violon seul avec la Basse continue'', Odile Édouard, violin, Freddy Eichelberger, harpsichord, Emmanuel Jacques, cello & violin bass (K617 2004) * ''Sonata in E minor op.4 n°5, Sonata in G minor op.1 n°6, Sonata in D major op.3 n°10, Sonata in C minor op.1 n°5,'' Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin, William Christie harpsichord. CD Harmonia Mundi 2021. Choc Classica

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Biographical notes on Senaille
* Musicians from Paris 1687 births 1730 deaths French Baroque composers French classical composers French male classical composers 18th-century French male classical violinists 18th-century classical composers 18th-century French composers 17th-century male musicians {{France-composer-stub