Life and Work

the few of his techniques seem to keep around anticipated a innovations of the Romanticist era: he wrote a Te Deum for 1200 singers & 300 wind; many cantata include videos for physical separation of multiple choirs, including invisible ones behind a stage. He wrote many works inside honor of the French revolution. including Le Triomphe delaware la République, & ''50'Offrande à la Liberté''.

Boy of a microscopic farmer, Gossec was natural at the village of Vergnies, in Belgian Hainaut. Showing an early taste for music, he became the choir-son around Antwerp. He attend Paris around 1751 and was taken up per wonderful composer, Jean-Philippe Rameau. He became conductor of a personal b& saved by Lthe Popelinière, a flush amateur, and became step by step determined to run something to revive the survey of implemental music inside France.

Gossec's have 1st symphony was performed in 1754, and when conductor to the Prince de Condé’s orchestra he produced several operas and more compositions of his have. He imposed his influence in French music sustaining remarkable profits. He premiered his Requiem within 1760, the a year and a half hour hanker piece, which processed him notable all-night. A piece was down the road admired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who visited Gossec when you took the like unsucessful hike to Paris inside 1778, & described him around the letter to his father as "a very good friend and a very dry man".

Gossec founded a Concert des Amateurs inside 1770 and in 1773 he reorganised a Concert Spirituel together using Simon Leduc & Pierre Gaviniès. Therein concert series he presented & conducted his have symphonies also when by his generation, especially works by Joseph Haydn, whose music became other & more popular within Paris, & eventually possibly superseded Gossecs symphonious act. Within 1780s Gossecs symphonious output decreased & he concentrated in operas. He organized a École first state Chant within 1784, together with Etienne Méhul, was conductor of the band of the Garde Nationale at the French Revolution, and was appointed (again by having Etienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini) inspector of the Conservatoire diamond state Musique on its creation within 1795. He was an original member of the Institut & the chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Around 1815, when a kill of Napoleon at Waterloo, the Conservatory was closed for a bit of instance by Louis XVIII, and a 81-month old Gossec got to retire. Until 1817 he worked in his endure composition, the third Te Deum, he survive pensions per Conservatoire

Outside France he was little knhave, & his own numerous compositions, sacred & laic, were overshadowed by people of greater composers; however he was an inspiration to many, & powerfully caused a revival of implemental music.

He died at Parisian suburban area of Passy. A funeral service was attended by previous colleagues, including Cherubini, at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. His grave is touching victims of Etienne Méhul and Grétry.

Works

For Orchestra
Sei sinfonie the più stromenti op.Four (1759) Sei sinfonie the più stromenti op.Quint (1761) Six Symphonies op.Hexad (1762) Six Symphonies à grand orchestre op. Xii (1769) Deux symphonies (1773) Symphonie n° Ace (c.1771-1774) Symphonie n° Ii (c.1771-1774) Symphonie nut fa majeur (1774) Symphonie de chasse (1776) Symphonie nut ré (1776) Symphonie nut ré (1777) Symphonie concertante nut fa majeur n° Two, à plusieurs instruments (1778) Symphonie nut clean majeur for wind orchestra (1794) Symphonie à Xvii parties nut fa majeur (1809)

Chamber Music
Sei sonate the due violini e basso op.Unity (c.1753) Sei quartetti by the flauto e violino o sia by the due violini, alto e basso op. Fourteen (1769) Six Quatuors à deux violons, alto et basse op. Fifteen (1772)

Vocal and Choral Works
Messe des morts (Requiem) (1760) La Nativité, cantata (1774) Te Deum (1779) Te Deum à la Fête first state la Fédération for terzetto voices, men's chourus & wind orchestra (1790) Hymne tyre la translation du corps diamond state Voltaire au Panthéon for three voices, men's chourus & wind orchestra (1791) Le Chant du Xiv juillet (Marie-Joseph Chénier) for three voices, men's chourus & wind orchestra (1791) Dernière messe des vivants, for quartet voices, chorus & orchestra (1813)

Operas
Les pêcheurs, opéra comique nut Unity work (1766) Le triomphe diamond state la République, ou Le campy diamond state Grandpré, divertissement-lyrique nut I acte, (Chénier) (1794)

Reference
Links
[http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/g/gossec.htm Life and and detailed work list, in french] [http://members.klosterneuburg.net/handerle/GOSSEC.HTM François-Joseph Gossec: "Le Tyrtée de la Révolution" - the official composer of the French Revolution]

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