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François-Joseph Gossec
French composer and conductor (1734-1829)
François-Joseph Gossec | |
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François-Joseph Gossec, by Antoine Vestier | |
| Born | (1734-01-17)17 January 1734 Vergnies, France |
| Died | 16 February 1829(1829-02-16) (aged 95) Passy, France |
| Era | Classical |
François-Joseph Gossec (French pronunciation:[fʁɑ̃swaʒozɛfɡɔsɛk]; 17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829)[1] was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.[2]
Life and work
The son of a small farmer, Gossec was born at the village of Vergnies, then a French exclave in the Austrian Netherlands, now an ancienne commune in the municipality of Froidchapelle, Belgium.
As a student he studied with the famous composer François-.
Showing an early taste for music, he became a choir-boy in Antwerp. He went to Paris in 1751 and was taken on by the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He followed Rameau as the conductor of a private orchestra kept by the fermier généralLe Riche de La Poupelinière, a wealthy