Lemoyne, Jean Baptiste (1751–1796)

French composer and conductor. Having conducted in the provinces, he went to Berlin to study with Graun, Kirnberger, and Schulz, and was there appointed second Kapellmeister by Frederick the Great. After visiting Warsaw he returned to France and composed in 1782 the opera Électre in the style of Gluck, whose pupil he claimed to be. When Gluck denied this, he joined the partisans of Piccinni.

Works operas Électre (after Sophocles, 1782), Phèdre (after Racine, 1786), Les Prétendus (1789), Nephté, etc.; ballets.