Gossec's Gavotte

Gossec's Gavotte in D Major is familiar in the United States and elsewhere, probably because an arrangement of it was used in several Warner Brothers cartoons.

François-Joseph Gossec (1734 – 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. He was little known outside France, and his own numerous compositions, sacred and secular, were overshadowed by those of more famous composers. Some of his techniques anticipated the innovations of the Romantic era. For example, he scored his Te Deum for 1200 singers and 300 wind instruments, and several of his oratorios require the physical separation of multiple choirs, including some behind the stage.

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