Joseph Meunier d'Haudimont

Joseph Meunier d'Haudimont (* 1751 in Paris , † probably after 1789 there ) was a French composer .

Life

D'Haudimont was born in Paris in 1751 and a few years later a choirboy at the Saint-Eustache Church. In Soissons he became a seminarist before returning to Paris at the age of 19, joining the Notre-Dame choir and taking lessons in harmony and composition from the local music master Louis Homet . From 1782 to 1788 he held the vacated position of Kapellmeister at Saints-Innocents (or through the union then to St-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ) and founded a composition school, one of the students was François-Louis Perne . The music biographer Fétis also describes the Abbé d'Haudimont as a pleasant violinist . Probably d'Haudimont died in the turmoil of the French Revolution at a point in time from 1789.

Works

The work of d'Haudimont includes choral music , violin sonatas and concerts , string quartets , as well as some church music , e.g. B. Masses , Motets , Magnificat and Alma . He also wrote an Instruction abrégée pour la composition (German: abbreviated instructions for composing). Baroque elements can still be found in his music , Fétis characterizes d'Haudimont's work as written in the bad French style of his era and recognizable by the embarrassed harmony.

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• Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea. World of music. The composers. Fourth volume, Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07834-X , p. 34.
• François-Joseph Fétis: Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Volume 3, Firmin-Didot, 1862, p. 243 ( digitized in the Google book search).