Musicatlas
Music
operas
- La Caverne (1793)
- Paul et Virginie ou Le Triomphe de la Vertu (1794)
- Télémaque dans l’île de Calypso ou Le Triomphe de la Sagesse (1796)
- La Mort d’Adam et son apothéose (1809)
- Ossian ou Les Bardes (1804)
- Tyrhée
- Artaxerse
- Alexandre à Babylone
other music
- Masses and oratorios
- Oratorios, "Rachel", "Ruth et Boaz"
- Mass and Te Deum for Coronation of Napoléon I
- Cantata for the marriage of Napoléon I
- Coronation oratoro for Charles X (1825)
Life
Le Sueur led a turbulent life, starting as a church musicien and composer of sacred music before the French revolution. He withdraw from the church in 1788, and after the revolution, he shifted his focus and praised the new ideals. He became popular and received recognition for he work. Among other things, he wrote music for the coronation of Napoléon I, and received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. After Napoléons defeat, Le Sueur became Superintenant and composer to the chapel for King Louis XVIII (1814), and later wrote music for the coronation of Charles X in 1825. In 1818, he became professor of composition. Among his students were Berlioz and Gounod. It is said that for the coronation music of Charles X, he reused large portions of the coronation music he had written for Napoléon I.