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François Giroust
1738 - 1799
France
| F. Giroust |
François Giroust (09/04/1738 (1737?) - 28/08/1799), a French composer, born in Paris. He was a boy-singer at Notre-Dame, Paris, lived for some time in Orléans.
| Source: | Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians |
| Contributor: | Frans van Wijck |
Dies irae
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1765 |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano (1190 - c.1255) |
| Label(s): | Erato 2292-45024 |
No details available.
| Contributor: | Arye Kendi |
Requiem
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1770c |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Requiem for SATB choir and orchestra (1760/1771).
| Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Missa pro defunctis
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1775 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Louis XV |
Giroust is problaby also the composer of this mass.
It is written in memory of Louis XV, who died in 1774.
It is written in memory of Louis XV, who died in 1774.
| Author: | J. Elby: 'Music in the Ancien Régime. A requiem mass for Louis XV: Charles d'Helfer, François Giroust and the Missa pro defunctis of 1775' |
| Source: | Early Music, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 218-233: Abstract. |
| Louis XV (dedicatee) |