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:
* ''Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique française, où, en examinant en détail les avantages des spectacles et le mérite des deux nations, on montre quelles sont les vraies beautés de la musique''; Brussels, 1704 and 1705, in-12, two parts containing:
** ''Réfutation du Parallèle des Italiens et des Français, published in 1702 by abbot
Raguenet'',
** ''Recueil de vers chantants et trois nouveaux Dialogues, dans lesquels sont renfermés une histoire de la musique et des opéras''; ''Vie de
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''; ''Réfutation du Traité de Perrault sur la musique des anciens'', and ''Traité du bon goût en musique''
[These dissertations have been reprinted in ''Histoire de la musique'' by Pierre Bonnet-Bourdelot]
* ''L’Art de décrire ce que l'on n'entend pas, ou le Médecin musicien''; Brussels (i.e. Rouen), 1706, in-12, Satire directed against physician
Nicolas Andry, who had criticized the author in the ''
Journal des savants
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'';
* ''Dissertation dans laquelle on prouve qu’
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n’est pas mort empoisonné'';
* ''Remarques sur
Ausone et sur
Catulle'' in ''
Mémoires de Trévoux
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'' of September and October 1708.
His brother, the monk bibliographer
Jean-Philippe Le Cerf de La Viéville, devoted a notice to him.
References
Sources
* Mary B. Ellison, ''The Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique françoise of Lecerf de la Vieville : an annotated translation of the first four dialogues'', Doctoral thesis of the
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, 1973
* Éloi Lebreton, ''Biographie rouennaise'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1865 (pp. 214–215).
External links
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viévilleon Larousse encyclopedy
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viévilleon Oxford Index
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viévillein ''Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, etc, Volume 23''
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French magistrates
17th-century French judges
1674 births
1707 deaths
18th-century French musicologists
Writers about music
Musicians from Rouen