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Born at Drucat-Plessiel, near Abbeville, he was a choir boy in the cathedral of Amiens, and then became musical director at various churches. In 1786 he obtained by open competition the musical directorship of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, where he gave successful performances of sacred music with a full orchestra. He resigned in 1787; and, after a retirement of five years in a friend's country house, he produced La Caverne and two other operas at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. Drucat is a commune of the Somme département, in northern France. ... This article refers to the city in France. ... The cathedral in Amiens Location within France Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. ... This article is about opera as an art form. ...

At the foundation of the Paris Conservatoire (1795), Lesueur was appointed one of its inspectors of studies, but was dismissed in 1802, owing to his disagreements with Etienne Méhul. Lesueur succeeded Giovanni Paisiello as Maestro di cappella to Napoleon, and produced (1804) his Ossian at the Opera. Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ... Paisiello at the clavichord, by Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1791. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ...

He also composed for the emperor's coronation a mass and a Te Deum. King Louis XVIII, who had retained Lesueur in his court, appointed him (1818) professor of composition at the Conservatoire; and at this institution he had, among many other pupils, Hector Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas, Louis Désir, Carlo Besozzi and Charles Gounod. Te Deum is a hymn of praise of uncertain authorship. ... Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824. ... Portrait of Berlioz by Signol, 1832 Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie Fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. ... Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (August 5, 1811 _ February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. ... Charles Gounod Charles François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his opera Faust. ...

Lesueur composed eight operas and several masses, and other sacred music.

See Raoul Rochette, Les Ouvrages de M. Lesueur (Paris. 1819).

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.