François Benoist (10/09/1794 - 06/05/1878), a French organist and composer (born in Nantes). He gained the Prix de Rome in 1815.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis (picture)
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Requiem
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1842 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This requiem mass is for four voices (3 male and 1 childs voice).
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
| Contributor: | Tassos Dimitriadis |
Dies irae
| Period: | Early Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1842 |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano (1190 - c.1255) |
Dies irae for four voices (1842).
| Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |