Désiré Martin-Beaulieu
1791 - 1863
France
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M.D. Beaulieu
Marie Désiré [Désiré] Martin-Beaulieu (11/04/1791 - 21/12/1863), a French composer and writer on music (born in Paris). Obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1810.
Source:Grove's dictionary of music and musicians
Contributor:Tassos Dimitriadis (picture)
Messe de requiem
Period:Early Romanticism
Composed in:1819
Musical form:mass
Text/libretto:Latin mass
In memory of:Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763 - 1817)
The French composer Désiré Beaulieu wrote a Messe de requiem for four voices, soli and chorus. This requiem is Beaulieu's principal work, written in memory of Méhul, a French composer, composed in 1819, first performed in 1840.
Source: Grove's dictionary of music and musicians
Contributor:Tassos Dimitriadis
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E.N. Méhul
(dedicatee)