Jean-Baptiste Moreau (composer)

Jean-Baptiste Moreau (* 1656 in Angers ; † August 24, 1733 in Paris ) was a French composer .

Saint Maurice Cathedral (Angers)

Life

As a choirboy at the Cathedral of St. Maurice of Angers, Moreau learned the craft of music. He worked for a short time in Langres and Dijon before settling in Paris. Here he managed to introduce himself to the court and was put into service by King Louis XIV . Here he received the post of Kapellmeister in the " Maison de Saint Cyr " subordinate to Madame de Maintenon , in which the composer Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714) also worked as organist and singing teacher. In 1694 he became music director of the “Musique des États du Languedoc” (The Estates), but after a while he returned to the capital. In the last years of his life he received a royal pension.

Moreau composed motets and set the choir appearances in the biblical tragedies Esther and Athalie by Jean Racine (1639–1699). He was also successful as a music teacher, as composers such as Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737), Clérambault (1676–1749) and Dandrieu (1682–1738) were among his students.

literature

• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 84, volume 4 .