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Jean-Marie Rousseau
c.1725 - 1784
France
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.
Requiem (3x)
Rousseau wrote 4 Requiems.
Messe des defunts
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.
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