Sebastien de Brossard
Sebastien de Brossard is a Compositeur and a theorist of the Musique French born with Dompierre (Flowering ash) the September 12th 1655 and died with Meaux the April 10th 1730.
After studies of Philosophy and Theology to Caen, he studies the music and is established with Paris in 1678, then is named Vicaire with the cathedral of Strasbourg. He founds there an Academy of Music in 1687 and they that he gets the major part of his musical library, became legendary there.
He wrote a work on the terms Greek, Latin and Italian in the music and the first Dictionnaire of music in French language in 1703. In 1724, Brossard offers its very rich library to Louis XV, in exchange of a pension, and the catalog writes some.
Work handwritten of 393 pages accompanied by an alphabetical table of 253 pages, this catalog constitutes still today an inexhaustible source of information on the musical Bibliographie, the quality of the impressions, esthetics and the theories musciales of the time. The manuscript is preserved at the department of the music of the National library of France.
Brossard moreover wrote six Livres of serious airs and with drinking (1691-1698), several Motet S and of the Lamentations of the prophet Jérémie (1721).
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