Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
French Jesuit and rhetorician
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| Intro | French Jesuit and rhetorician | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Philologist Professor | |
| Work field | Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | 24 August 1706, Charolles | |
| Death | 20 September 1782Semur-en-Auxois (aged 76 years) |
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Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (born in the diocese of Clermont, 1601, and died in Paris, 30 Oct 1675) was a French composer. He entered the Jesuit order as a novice in 1621 and from 1660 until his death directed the music at the church attached to the Jesuit Professed house of Paris (known today as the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church), where Marc-Antoine Charpentier later served.
Besides a few vocal works in manuscript, three publications are known:
- Musicalia varia ad usum ecclesiae (1650, lost)
- Musica sacra ad vesperas aliasque in ecclesia preces for one, two and four voices with organ (1659)
- Musica sacra ad varias ecclesiae preces … pars altera (1661), for four voices, including a Mass recently reedited by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles