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 |
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.
| 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. |
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Louis XV
(dedicatee) |