Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Balbatre, Claude

by John Weeks Moore

Balbatre, Claude, born at Dijon in 1729, went to Paris in 1750. He was an excel-lent organist of Rameau's school. His organ concertos at the concert spirituel were long the delight of Paris. He published some works for the harpsichord, and died in 1799.