Pierre Desvignes
Pierre Desvignes (born September 27, 1764 in Velars-sur-Ouche , † January 27, 1827 in Paris ), whose full name was Pierre Louis Augustin Desvignes, was a French composer and church musician.
biography
He was the son of Jacques Desvignes and Anne Dambrun, who were farmers and market traders. When he was six years old, he was raised by his aunt, Denise Dambrung, the housekeeper of canons at the cathedral of Dijon Saint-Etienne was taught in the boys' choir. From 1870 to 1883 he sang in the boys' choir and was also trained on the cello there. He was a student of Jean-François Lesueur . He completed his training in 1780 with the composition of a mass in D minor.
From 1783 to 1786 Desvignes acted as music master at the Notre Dame cathedral in Évreux , succeeding Marie Urbain Louis Cordonnier. In 1786 he became music master at Chartres Cathedral . In 1789 he neglected his service as psalm master and was therefore replaced by Michel Delalande for this area . In 1790 he was also appointed canon of St. Piat. In this function he notarized some marriages of the musicians playing in his orchestra. In 1793 Desvignes ended his service in Chartres.
The upheavals of the French Revolution and the ensuing disempowerment and expropriation of the Church brought him to Paris, where he also received the security card. There he played as a musician (probably cello) in the city theater until 1802. Between 1795 and 1801 he also taught music theory at the newly founded Conservatoire de Paris . Desvignes lost this position due to a dispute between the director Sarrette and his sponsor Jean-François Lesueur.
From 1802 until his death in 1827 he was cantor of Notre Dame . Furthermore, from 1811 he held the post of deputy conductor of the imperial chapel of Napoleon I. In 1813 and 1814 he complained several times to the Ministry of Religious Affairs about Alexandre-Étienne Choron, who was entrusted with the reorganization of church music. Desvignes was accepted as a non-resident member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon in 1820 on the recommendation of Lesueur .
Desvigne's work was diverse. He composed four comic operas , two serious operas, eleven masses , ninety-five motets , eleven psalms and four cantatas , as well as two exercise pieces.
Works (selection)
- L'épouvantail ou La féérie de village , comic opera
- Les sorciers de village , comic opera
- L'amant, frère et rival , comic opera,
- Amour et jeunesse ou le sous-lieutenant de dragons , comic opera
- Sigismond 3 à Cracovie , opera
- Sophronie ou La liberté des cultes , opera
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer , motet
- Aperite portas: antienne , motet
- Applicabuntur gentes , motet
- Ascendit Deus , motet
- Cantata en l'honneur de Napoléon 1st. , Cantata
- Chant pour l'inuguration de la nouvelle salle de madame De Bré , cantata
- Ode sacrée , cantata
- Scène dialoguée , cantata
Web links
- CV at the Center de musique baroque de Versailles
- Information on Pierre Desvignes in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Curriculum vitae in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris on Google Books , page 322 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desvignes, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Desvignes, Pierre Louis Augustin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Velars-sur-Ouche |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1827 |
| Place of death | Paris |