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Marc Antoine Desaugiers
1739 - 1793
France
Marc Antoine Desaugiers (1739 - 10/09/1793), a French composer (from Fréjus).
The French composer Desaugiers worked in Paris in politically restless times. He adopted ideas of the French Revolution (sincerely or by opportunism?). He composed canta Hierodrame in memory of conqest of Fortress Bastilje and used revolutionally song "Ah ca ira" in his opera "Le Medicin malgre lui". Desaugiers was a friend pof Gluck and Sacchini. His Requiem is composed probably to the memory of Sacchini. Like many other composers at that time (like Mozart, Haydn, Gossec and Gluck) Desaugiers was a member of the freemasonry. This is unclear but the son of the composer, Marc-Antoine Madelaine, assured that his father was a freemason.
Desaugiers composed a Miserere (1777), about twenty opera's, a symphony and the Idylle sur la Naissance de Jesus Christ.
Requiem
This requiem mass was written in 1786, for the death of Desaugiers's friend Antonio Sacchini (1730-1786), a composer as well.
This Requiem is strongly influenced by the Requiem of Gossec. It contains:
01. Requiem aeternam (Introït) 02. Te decet hymnus 03. Kyrie eleison 04. Si ambulum (Graduel) 05. Virga tua 06. Dies irae (Prose) 07. Tuba mirum 08. Mors stupebit 09. Liber scriptus 10. Quaerens me 11. Preces meae 12. Confutatis 13. Oro supplex 14. Pie Jesu 15. Domine Jesu Christe (Offertoire) 16. Sed signifer Sanctus 17. Sanctus (Sanctus) 18. Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei) 19. Lux aeterna (Communion)
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