Prin, Jean-Baptiste
Prin, Jean-Baptiste
Prin, Jean-Baptiste , French trumpet marine player, teacher, dancing master, and composer; b. England, c. 1669; d. Strasbourg, after 1742. He studied the trumpet marine with his father, and by 1689 he was active in Lyons. About 1698 he went to Paris, where he was a performer and a dancer. In 1704 he returned to Lyons and performed and taught until retiring to Strasbourg in 1737. He was the author of the method Traité sur la trompette marine (1742). His MS collection of works for the trumpet marine, along with those of other composers, is housed in the Lyons Library.
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