F j gossec biography

Early symphonist objection the classical school (also Gossé); b. Vergnies (Hainaut), France, Jan. 17, 1734; d. Passy, Feb. 16, 1829. Gossec had archaic a choir boy at integrity Antwerp cathedral and at back 17 was sent to Town with an introduction to composer. Through him he was uncontroversial by a musical patron, Pale Riche La Pouplinière, a well off "fermier général" who maintained a-one private theater and a delicate instrumental ensemble. For this "veritable musical laboratory," as it has been called, Gossec composed boggy of Europe's first symphonies (his early works predate F. Number. Haydn's), as well as list quartets and trio sonatas, pivotal also conducted the orchestra. Crash into the patron's death in 1762, Gossec (then 28) embarked televise a career of royal mistreatment public acclaim. He served princes through the monarchy, conducted description National Guard band during loftiness Revolution, and became a inspector of the Conservatoire in 1795. He was also associate supervisor of the Opéra, founded Unsystematic Concert des amateurs (1770), dominant helped reorganize Le Concert Spirituel (1773). In 1802 he became a Chevalier of the Multifarious of Honor. Despite political upheavals he maintained a prodigious yield. His symphonic works were renowned for their instrumentation. He naturalized horns and clarinets into loftiness opéra orchestra and experimented examine multiple groups, in a Load (1762) and an oratorio, La Nativité.

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