Jean-Baptiste Roucourt ( French: Jean-Baptiste Roucourt ; October 28, 1780 , Brussels - May 1, 1849 , Brussels ) - Belgian composer and music teacher.
He received his initial musical education under the leadership of Charles Joseph van Helmont , then in 1802 - 1803 . studied vocal at the Paris Conservatory with Vincenzo Fiocchi . He taught for some time in Paris, and in 1812 he returned to Brussels and founded his own singing school. Things went so well for Rokur that in 1823 he received a government subsidy and the right to name his institution the Royal School of Music. In 1824 , a violin class was established at the school, headed by Nikola Lambert Veri . As a result of the Belgian revolution in 1830, the royal patent issued from Amsterdam lost its power and the Rukur school closed, but when the much larger Brussels Conservatory was formed two years later, Rukur was awarded the title of professor emeritus and is still considered to be the direct predecessor of the conservatory [ 1] .
Rukur belongs to the cantata for the marriage of Prince Frederick of Orange of Nassau to Louise of Prussia ( 1825 ), a number of romances, choral and vocal church music. He also wrote The Experience of the Theory of Singing ( French Essai sur la théorie du chant ; 1820 ).
Notes
- ↑ Orpha Caroline Ochse. Organists and organ playing in nineteenth-century France and Belgium. - Indiana University Press, 1994. - P. 161. (English)
Links
- Rucourt, Jean-Baptiste: sheet music at International Music Score Library Project