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Jean-Marie Rousseau
c.1725 - 1784
France
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| J.M. Rousseau |
Jean-Marie Rousseau (ca.1725 - 17/02/1784), a French composer, from Dijon. In his early years, he was a chorister in Dijon, Arras and Beauvais and choir master of the "Onze Lieve Vrouw" (Notre Dame) cathedral of Tournai (Doornik) from 1762 till his death in 1784. He composed 16 masses (a 4 and 5), 3 Te Deums voor soli and chorus and 41 motets.
| Author: | Jose Remacle |
| Source: | LP jacket - Duchesne DD 6063 (Liege) Musique sacree du XVIIIe s. a Tournai |
| Contributor: | Arye Kendi |
Requiem (3x)
| Period: | Classicism |
| Musical form: | masses |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Rousseau wrote 4 Requiems.
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
Messe des defunts
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1784 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| Duration: | ca.25' |
| Label(s): | Duchesne DD 6063 |
Messe des defunts, no 16 (1784) for mixed choir, some dozen instruments and organ. Duration: ca 25'. It contains:
01. Requiem
02. Kyrie
03. Agnus Dei
04. Et lux perpetua
He composed the work for the approaching death of a friend, but died on the way to Lille to his funeral. Thus the requiem was first performed at the funeral of the composer himself.
01. Requiem
02. Kyrie
03. Agnus Dei
04. Et lux perpetua
He composed the work for the approaching death of a friend, but died on the way to Lille to his funeral. Thus the requiem was first performed at the funeral of the composer himself.
| Author: | Jose Remacle |
| Source: | LP jacket - Duchesne DD 6063 (Liege) Musique sacree du XVIIIe s. a Tournai |
| Contributor: | Arye Kendi |