François-Joseph Gossec

François-Joseph Gossec (Kid of its true name) (Vergnies, the January 17th 1734 - Passy, the February 16th 1829) French is a type-setter.

Biography

François-Joseph Gossec was born in Vergnies, a village French wedged in the Comté of Hainaut then field of the Austrian crown. This village is located today in Belgium in the Province of Hainaut.

Formed with Walcourt before becoming chorus-singer with the cathedral of Antwerp (where it achieves its musical studies), then with Brussels and Liege, Gossec was engaged as violonist in the orchestra of Pouplinière, with Paris. Between 1762 and 1770, it directed the theater of the Prince de Condé to Chantilly (as Master of music). It was useful then as Intendant of the Music of the Prince de Conti.

It founded the Concert of the amateurs in 1769, qu ' it directed until 1773. Between 1773 and 1777, he was director of the Concert of sacred music. In 1780, he becomes sub-manager of the Opéra then, after the resignation of Antoine Dauvergne at Easter 1782, managing director. However, its capacities were limited because counterbalanced by that of the Secretary of State to the house of the King and that of the committee of the artists. In 1784, it leaves the direction of the committee to direct the news royal École of song.

It was made known also by its action in the revolutionary movement. He was indeed recognized as “an official musician of the Revolution”, being made a reputation of inventor of the democratic music and popular art choral. This characteristic was worth remainder to him disgrace at the time of the Restauration. After 1789, he wrote many works inspired of the Révolution, such of the Hymne S.

Regarded in addition as the father of the French symphony, it was very friendly with Mozart and founded with another large Walloon musician , the inhabitant of Li2ege Andre-Modeste Grétry, the Conservatoire of Paris where it taught the composition between 1795 and 1814 and of which it will be one of the inspectors.

Its some 50 Symphonie S - whose first, made up in 1756, are former to those of Joseph Haydn - contributed to the development of the kind in France. Composed in 1809, the Symphony with 17 parts, celebrating the 20th birthday of the catch of the Bastille, was the last of the series. It also composed of the operas, in particular the Fisherman (1766) and Toinon and Toinette (1767), Sabinus or Thésée , of works of chamber music and the crowned parts, the such Oratorio the Nativity (1774). Its Missa pro defunctis - still called Great Mass for the dead and known as its Requiem - composed in 1760 is an innovative work of a great beauty which probably inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for his very famous Requiem but also the Grande Mass for the dead of Berlioz. The Mass of Alive the , made up in 1813 and sadly named, was one of its last compositions.

It found death after sixty-five years of a career which Te Deum finished with its last , in 1817. Gossec is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise where it rests close to the tomb of his friend Gretry.

To discover Gossec

The Requiem by the Musica polyphonica , under the direction of Louis Devos.

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