Jean-François Le Sueur (Lesueur)

Born: 15 February 1760, Drucat-Plessiel (near Abbeville) (France)
Died: 6 October 1837, Paris (France)

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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)

Biography

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.

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Crusaders: The Radical Legacy of Marian and Arthur Lesueur (Borealis Books)
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William Dawson Le Sueur (1840-1917, a Canadian Man of Letters : the Sage of Ottowa)
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Ennes/Innes, Viervant, Lesueur: Early 17th century ancestors in New Amsterdam
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The LeSueur family
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John and Caroline Le Sueur family
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Links

• Le Sueur in The Catholic Encyclopedia