Benoit Mozin

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Benoit François Mozin called le jeune (the younger) (21 March 1769 – 1 December 1857) was a French composer.

Life[edit]

Benoit Mozin Portrait

Born in Paris, Mozin[1] was first a pupil of François-Joseph Gossec, and then became a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris (until 1802), where Victor Dourlen was among his pupils. He later married the daughter of Louis Joseph Guichard,[2] singing teacher, in his third marriage.

They had two children: the eldest, the marine painter Charles Mozin, discoverer of Trouville-sur-Mer, and his brother, the composer Théodore Mozin, second Grand Prix de Rome in musical composition in 1841 (a pupil of Henri-Montan Berton and Fromental Halévy).

Mozin was a member of the "Société académique des enfants d'Apollon"[3] and of the Société du Caveau [fr].

He left about 60 scores for the piano including Souvenir de Trouville, Op. 19, a title revived by his son Theodore (Quadrille, Op. 22).

After he died in 1857 in Sèvres, Mozin was buried at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (8th division).[4]

Works (BnF)[edit]

  • À l'auguste famille des Bourbon, romance sur des paroles de madame Mozin
  • Les quatre saisons, musique italienne, composition by Guillaume André Villoteau with piano accompaniment by Benoit Mozin
  • 6e pot-pourri d'airs connus pour le piano forte (1792)
  • Concerto de Maestrino, arranged for harpsichord or forte piano
  • Six romances avec accompagnement pour le forte piano (1796)
  • Scene of the 1st act of Gluck's Alceste arranged for the forte piano (1800)
  • Air del signor Biani, accompaniment by Mozin le jeune
  • Les glouglous, chanson bachique on lyrics of (Béranger)
  • Pour toi, romance, lyrics by M. de Segur jeune
  • Les souvenirs, collection of contradances for the piano forte
  • Un précepte d'Hippocrate, bacchanalian song (1822)
  • Les adieux d'un cosaque, fantasy for the piano forte dedicated to S.A. Monseigneur Alexandre prince of Kourakin (Alexander Kurakin)
  • Le retour du carnaval, contradanses and walzes
  • Souvenir de Trouville, galop en rondo for piano Op.19
  • Sonata Op.12
  • 3rd collection of romances with accompaniment for the piano forte (1799)
  • 3 sonatas for the piano forte (1798)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Genealogy of the Mozin family, established by Francois Piet
  2. ^ Louis Joseph Guichard on BnF.
  3. ^ "Société académique des enfants d'Apollon"
  4. ^ "Notice sur le site des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise". Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2018-09-24.

Sources[edit]

  • Constant Pierre: Le Conservatoire national de musique et déclamation, Paris 1900, Imprimerie nationale