Sébastien de Brossard

Sébastien de Brossard ( born September 12, 1655 in Dompierre (Orne ); † August 10, 1730 in Meaux ) was a French composer, music educator, collector and writer on music.

Life

De Brossard worked from 1687 as a chaplain and from 1689 as Kapellmeister at the Strasbourg Cathedral. He was from the heirs of clergy Franz rust (before 1640-1688 ) assume a collection of compositions of the 17th century, which account for a major part of the collection and were known as the "Codex rust". In this collection are similar to the Dübensammlung to find the only surviving today copies of works of German and Italian composers.

Brossard twisted to Paris, but was disappointed to not receive a post at the Sainte -Chapelle, the place where those who perverted that he considered the greatest musicians of France and to whom he owed the most. So he retired to Meaux, where he was succeeded Pierre Tabart, 1698-1709 Director of Music at the Cathedral. His library he bequeathed in 1724 to a pension Louis XV. Today it forms the basic constituent of the Fonds de musique ancienne the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Works

Brossard composed numerous motets ( grands motets and petits motets ), cantatas, oratorios, funeral music, arias ( Airs ). His instrumental works include violin sonatas, trio sonatas and orchestral works. As a writer, he created with French and Italian poetry with ever a band, and he also wrote liturgical texts.

• A music lexicon Dictionnaire de musique (1703, 6 editions; Reprint: Frits Knuf / Hilversum 1965)