Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny

Jérôme -Joseph de Momigny ( born January 20, 1762 Philippe Ville, Belgium, † August 25 1842 in the asylum of Charenton, today, Saint -Maurice, France) was a composer and music theorist.

Life

Jérôme -Joseph de Momigny lived and worked in France, at the age of 12 he knew the organ in Saint Omer service. In 1785 he was organist at the Abbey of Saint Pierre in Lyon, after its dissolution in 1792, he led a grocery business and participated in 1793 in the counter-revolutionary uprising of Lyon. In 1800 he founded to publish his compositions and writings in Paris a music publishing and a music shop.

In 1806 he published his most famous work, " Cours complet d'harmonie et de composition d'après une théorie neuve " ( in 3 volumes ). In it, he developed a theory among others about the importance of upbeat, which was not accepted by the academy, but was later taken up by Hugo Riemann again. Thus, as a prelude to the main clock is hinleitend, more to stress than the latter. Such phrasing is typical for jazz, but also sporadically maintained by classical performers.

In 1840 he came a second time in the sanatorium " de Charenton asylum ," where he mentally confused died two years later.

His son Georges- Joseph de Momigny (1812 - after 1875 ) studied with Antonin Reicha and Pierre Zimmermann, he became organist at Saint -Denis de la Chapelle. He left the piano works and church music.

Works (selection)

From its proven 188 works, are about 120 to be lost.

• 3 operas, " Le Baron de Felsheim ", " La nouvelle laitière " and " Arlequin Cendrillon "
• 5 Cantatas and Scenic concerts, 137 Romances, Aira, couplets, Stances and Polonaises.
• 3 Sonatas for Piano and Violin Op.2
• 3 Piano Sonatas Op.7 ( 1801-1805 )
• 3 Sonatas for Piano Violin and Bass Op.14
• 3 Sonatas for Piano and Violin Op.18

Writings (selection )

• Méthode de piano (1802 )
• Complèst Cours d'harmonie et de composition (1803-1806)
• La seule vraie theorie de la musique (1821 )
• A l' Académie des Beaux -Arts (1831 )