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François Giroust

1738 - 1799

France

F. Giroust

François Giroust (09/04/1738 (1737?) - 28/08/1799), a French composer, born in Paris. He was a boy-singer at Notre-Dame, Paris, lived for some time in Orléans.

Source:	Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians
Contributor:	Frans van Wijck

Prose des Morts - Dies irae

Period:	Classicism
Composed in:	1765
Musical form:	motet
Text/libretto:	Thomas de Celano (1190 - c.1255)
Duration:	16'07
Label(s):	Erato 2292-45024

Prose des Morts (Dies Irae) contains:
01. Dies irae, dies illa
02. Quantus tremor est futurus
03. Tuba mirum spargens sonum
04. Liber scriptus proferetur
05. Confutatis maledictis
06. Oro supplex et acclinis
07. Lacrimosa dies illa
08. Huic ergo parce, Deus, Pie Jesu Domine

Source:	booklet of cd Erato 2292-450242
Contributor:	Arye Kendi

♫ 01. Dies irae, dies illa
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 02. Quantus tremor est futurus
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 03. Tuba mirum spargens sonum
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 04. Liber scriptus proferetur
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 05. Confutatis maledictis
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 06. Oro supplex et acclinis
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 07. Lacrimosa dies illa
© Erato 2292-450242

♫ 08. Huic ergo parce, Deus, Pie Jesu Domine
© Erato 2292-450242

Requiem

Period:	Classicism
Composed in:	1770c
Musical form:	mass
Text/libretto:	Latin mass

Requiem for SATB choir and orchestra (1760/1771).

Source:

Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003

Missa pro defunctis

Period:	Classicism
Composed in:	1775
Musical form:	mass
Text/libretto:	Latin mass
In memory of:	Louis XV

Giroust is problaby also the composer of this mass.
It is written in memory of Louis XV, who died in 1774.

Author:	J. Elby: 'Music in the Ancien Régime. A requiem mass for Louis XV: Charles d'Helfer, François Giroust and the Missa pro defunctis of 1775'
Source:	Early Music, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 218-233: Abstract.

Louis XV
(dedicatee)

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