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French composer and conductor ()

François-Joseph Gossec
François-Joseph Gossec, by Antoine Vestier
Born	()17 January Vergnies, France
Died	16 February () (aged&#;95) Passy, France
Era	Classical

François-Joseph Gossec (French pronunciation:[fʁɑ̃swaʒozɛfɡɔsɛk]; 17 January – 16 February )^[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.

Showing an early taste for music, he became a choir-boy in Antwerp.

François-Joseph Gossec () was a French composer and conductor.

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.

Born in the South Netherlands, Gossec received encouragement from Rameau when he first went to Paris in , gradually establishing his reputation as a.

Elder statesman of Parisian musical life during the s, he was the Revolution's chosen spokesman and banner waver, “the musician of the Revolution” .

Gossec, a contemporary of Haydn, wrote numerous operas and orchestral works (Symphony in F Major), large-scale choral works (the Te Deum of ).

He went to Paris in 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 amateur and patron of music.

Gradually he became dete