Joseph Pouteau de Forqueray

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Joseph Pouteau de Forqueray (born February 7, 1739 in Chaumes-en-Brie , † December 3, 1823 in Paris ) was a French composer , organist and music teacher in the age of classical music .

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Joseph Pouteau came to Paris at the age of four and studied the organ with his great-uncle Michel Forqueray and composition with Louis-Charles Bordier . After he had won a competition for organ in 1753, he got a job as organist at the churches of St-Martin-des-Champs (1753-1756) and Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie (1756-1757). After Michel Forqueray's death in 1757, he inherited his library and was employed as an organist in the “Couvent des Filles-Dieu ” monastery in Paris. When there were sanctions against church institutions in the course of the French Revolution , this affected his work as an organist and he also lost most of his wealthy students. Therefore, he received financial support from the National Convention . He took over a position as professor and piano teacher at the Ursuline monastery and was organist at the churches of St-Merry and St-Séverin in Paris from 1807 to 1818 .

Before the French Revolution he was a member of the Masonic lodges “ Saint-Theodore de la Sincérité ” (1776) and “ Caroline-Louise, Reine de Naples ” (1777). During the time of the Napoleonic Empire , he joined the lodges “ Le Center des Amis ” (1804) and “ Les Élèves de la Nature ” (1810-1812).

Works

  • Alain et Rosette - Pastoral opera in one act, 1777 ( Libretto : Maximilien-Jean Boutellier )
  • La bergère sensible - Ariette pastoral with orchestral accompaniment
  • Collection of arietas and opera arias arranged for piano or harpsichord (and violin ad libitum )
  • Sonatas for violin and piano or harpsichord
  • Air de Chimène - for violin and piano or harpsichord
  • Le Serment civique ou Potpourri National - for choir
  • Cantatilles - cantatas with orchestral accompaniment
  • Motet for choir and orchestra

Web links

Works directories

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Bonfils, SL:  Pouteau, Joseph. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ Paul Vandevijvere: Dictionnaire des compositeurs francs-maçons . Primento, 2015, ISBN 978-2-8066-3166-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Alexandre Étienne Choron, François Joseph M. Fayolle: Dictionnaire historique des musiciens, artistes et amateurs morts ou vivans, par A. Choron et F. Fayolle . 1811 ( digitized in Google book search [accessed November 4, 2018]).
  4. ^ Les musiciens d'église francs-maçons à Paris (1790-1815): l'exemple des organistes. Retrieved November 4, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Forqueray, Joseph Pouteau de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, organist and music teacher in the age of classical music
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaumes-en-Brie
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1823
Place of death Paris