Jean-François Le Sueur

Jean -François Lesueur (Le Sueur; * February 15, 1760 in Drucat - Plessiel in Abbeville, † October 6, 1837 in Paris) was a French church musician and composer.

Life

Jean -François Lesueur was a chorister at Abbeville and Amiens and became Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Sées. After further training at Abbé Nicolas Roze in Paris, he was the bandmaster of the cathedral in 1779 in Dijon, 1782, the cathedral in Le Mans and 1783 at Saint -Martin de Tours. 1786, he finally received the Conductor of Notre- Dame de Paris. At 1795 the newly founded Paris Conservatoire, he received an inspectors point, and Napoleon Bonaparte appointed him in 1804 to the court conductor. He was opera conductor and 1817 teacher of composition at the Conservatoire. His most famous students were Berlioz and Charles Gounod.

Lesueur composed in addition to numerous operas over thirty fairs, four oratorios, a Stabat Mater and smaller works. Stylistically, he is considered the precursor of Hector Berlioz.

Works

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind

• Marche du Sacre de Napoléon
• Scène d' hommes et chœur patriotique pour orchester d'harmonie
• Hymne de triomphe de la République Française
• Anthem pour le 27 juillet ( Chant du IX thermidor )
• Chant dithyrambique
• Anthem pour le festival de l'Agriculture
• Anthem pour l' Inauguration d'un Temple de la Liberte

Oratorios and Sacred Works

Stage Works

Writings

• Projet d' un plan général de l'instruction musicale en France, circa 1800
• Notice sur la MELOPEE, la Rhythmopée, et les grandes de la musique ancienne caractères, 1793