Joseph Lebourgeois
Joseph-Auguste Lebourgeois (born February 23, 1802 in Versailles , † March 1824 in Rome ) was a French composer .
Lebourgois had first lessons from his father Jean-Jacques Lebourgeois (1741-1814), who was organist at the Notre-Dame church in Versailles, and from Julian Mathieu , the last maître de musique at the Chapelle royale . At the Conservatoire de Paris visited Lebourgeois the piano class and studied harmony with Victor Dourlen and composition with Jean-François Lesueur .
In 1822 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Geneviève de Brabant , which was performed in October of that year in the Académie des Beaux Arts . In March 1823 he began his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, where he died unexpectedly the following year at the age of 22. He left a number of vocal and instrumental works in the manuscript.
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| SURNAME | Lebourgeois, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lebourgeois, Joseph-Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1824 |
| Place of death | Rome |