Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt
13 December 1744 Paris – 5 December 1824 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados
a French musician and composer.

after a painting (about 1769) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

In 1777, she composed the Marche des insurgents (March of the Insurgents) to celebrate an American victory in the American Revolutionary War.
She was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, with whom she had a large correspondence having become acquainted with him during and after his stay in Paris during the American Revolution. She played and composed for the harpsichord and the piano, and lived in Passy.

About 1767, Luigi Boccherini composed in Paris the Six Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin op 5. The set was dedicated to Anne Louise Boyvin : "She is one of the greatest lady-players on the harpsichord in Europe. This lady (...) plays the most difficult pieces with great precision, taste and feeling (...). She likewise composes, and she was so obliging as to play several of her own pieces both on the harpsichord and pianoforte accompanied with the violin by M. Pagin, who is reckoned in France the best scholar of Tartini ever made."

painting: waterbased on an ivory chip





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