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GOSSEC, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (1734—1829)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 269 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOSSEC, See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH (1734—1829) , See also:French musical composer, son of a small See also:farmer, was See also:born at the See also:village of Vergnies, in Belgian See also:Hainaut, and showing See also:early a See also:taste for See also:music became a See also:choir-boy at See also:Antwerp. He went to See also:Paris in 1751 and was taken up by See also:Rameau. He became conductor of a private See also:band kept by La Popeliniere, a wealthy See also:amateur, and gradually determined to do something to revive the study of instrumental music in See also:France. He had his own first See also:symphony performed in 1754, and as conductor to the See also:Prince de See also:Conde's See also:orchestra he produced several operas and other compositions of his own. He imposed his See also:influence upon French music with remarkable success, founded the See also:Concert See also:des Amateurs in 1770, organized the Ecole de See also:Chant in 1784, was conductor of the band of the Garde Nationale at the Revolution, and was appointed (with Maul and See also:Cherubini) inspector of the See also:Conservatoire de Musique when this institution was created in 1795. He was an See also:original member of the See also:Institute and a See also:chevalier of the See also:legion of See also:honour. Outside France he was but little known, and his own numerous compositions, sacred and See also:secular, were thrown into the shade by those of men of greater See also:genius; but he has a See also:place in See also:history as the inspirer of others, and as having powerfully stimulated the revival of instrumental music. He died at Passy on the 16th of See also:February 1829. See the Lives by P. Hedouin (1852) and E. G. J.

Gregoir (1878).

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