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Guillaume Despréaux
1801 - aft. 1838
France
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Guillaume Despréaux -born as Guillaume Ross- (1801/1803 - after 1838), a French composer, born in Clermont-Ferrand. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with François-Joseph Fétis and Henri Montan Berton. In 1828 Despréaux won with the Cantate Herminie the Premier Grand Prix de Rome. He wrote a Requiem and a Dies Irea.
Requiem
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1830 |
| Musical form: | fragment |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
From Rome he sent in 1830 a Requiem and a Dies irae.
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 http://www.archive.org/details/cyclopediaofmusi01cham |
Dies irae
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1830 |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano |
From Rome he sent in 1830 a Requiem and a Dies irae.
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 http://www.archive.org/details/cyclopediaofmusi01cham |