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François-Joseph Fétis
1784 - 1871
Belgium
| F.J. Fétis |
François-Joseph Fétis (25/03/1784 - 26/03/1871), a Belgian musicologist, teacher and composer, born in Mons (Bergen).
| Source: | Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians |
Requiem
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1815 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This Requiem is written in 1814/1815.
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
Messe de requiem
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1850 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Queen Louise-Marie of Belgium |
This requiem is written for Louise Marie Therese Princess of France. She was born on 3 Apr 1812 in Palermo, Italy. She was christened in Palermo, Italy. She died on 11 Oct 1850 in Oostende, West-Flanders, Belgium. She was buried on 17 Oct 1850 in Laeken, Brabant, Belgium. She married Leopold I Georg Christian Friedrich, King of Belgium on 9 Aug 1832 in Chateau, De Compiegne, Oise, France.
Important requiem composers in the 19th century include Aiblinger, Andrevi y Castellar, Bochsa, Van Bree, Canetti, Catelani, Coccia, Fétis, Goss, Gounod, Habert, Mabellini, Meyerbeer, Neukomm, Pacini, Reinecke, Reissinger and Rheinberger.
| Author: | James W. Pruett |
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians |
| Queen Louise-Marie of Belgium (dedicatee) |