Jean-Baptiste Rey - incorrect name
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:15 pm
The entry named 'Jean-Baptiste Rey' [https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Rey,_Jean-Baptiste] which includes 2 sets of cello sonatas attributes these works to the wrong composer. They are by his brother Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey (Oct 26, 1738 - May 12, 1811). The confusion arises because the title pages of all these works give the composer as 'J. Rey', but the 'J.' is for Joseph, not Jean-Baptiste. The article 'Rey family' in Grove only partly clarifies this confusion because the work-list for Joseph Rey is inaccurate and incomplete.
The string trio on the IMSLP page is by 'Jean Rey', i.e. Jean-Baptiste, identified on the title page as professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire, a post he held for 3 years from 1799. The date on the title page, of a performance on '11 Germinal year 9' (Revolutionary caldendar) corresponds to 30 March 1803.
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Dr George Kennaway
The string trio on the IMSLP page is by 'Jean Rey', i.e. Jean-Baptiste, identified on the title page as professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire, a post he held for 3 years from 1799. The date on the title page, of a performance on '11 Germinal year 9' (Revolutionary caldendar) corresponds to 30 March 1803.
(I've never used this forum before so I have no idea if this will be read!)
Dr George Kennaway