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Gossec Sheet Music and Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fran\u00e7ois-Joseph Gossec
17 Jan 1734-16 Feb 1829<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fran\u00e7ois Gossec was born in the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) to a farmer on 17th January 1734. He helped shape French orchestral music though he was fairly unknown outside of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gossec began learning the violin and harpsichord when he was very young prior to becoming a choir boy in Antwerp at the age of seven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have several unique arrangements of the recognisable Gavotte from the opera Rosine such as for string quartet<\/a> and guitar duet.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Career and Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1751 Gossec moved to Paris and was taken under the wing of Jean-Philippe Rameau<\/a>. He succeeded him as director of a private orchestra of the wealthy amateur and patron of music La Pouplini\u00e8re (or La Popelini\u00e8re). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first of his thirty symphonies were performed in 1754. He experimented with French choral and orchestral music introducing both the horn and clarinet into the French orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gossec premiered his Requiem in 1760 and the ninety-minute composition made him famous overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1769 Gossec founded his own orchestra attracting many great musicians. In his final season as conductor in 1773 Fran\u00e7ois gave the first performance of a Haydn <\/a>symphony in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As conductor of Prince de Cond\u00e9’s he added operas to his repertoire, but his instrumental work was much more successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the creation of the Paris Conservatoire<\/a> in 1795, Fran\u00e7ois became a teacher and inspector until 1816. He died on 16th February 1829 in Passy, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gossec’s Gavotte<\/a><\/em> remains known today due to its use by Warner Bros in many cartoons. You may recognise it from the YouTube video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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