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GOSSEC, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (17341829) , French musical composer, son of a small farmer, was born at the village
taste for music became a choir-boy at Antwerp. He went to Paris in 1751 and was taken up by Rameau. He became conductor of a private band kept by La Popeliniere, a wealthy amateur
Conde 's orchestra he produced several operas and other compositions of his own. He imposed his influence upon French music with remarkable success, founded the Concert des Amateurs in 1770, organized the Ecole de Chant in 1784, was conductor of the band of the Garde Nationale at the Revolution, and was appointed (with Maul and Cherubini ) inspector of the Conservatoire de Musique when this institution was created in 1795. He was an original
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