January 17 - François-Joseph Gossec (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for January 17th are here: Eartha Kitt; John Stanley; Benjamin Franklin (2020) and Kid Rock (2021)

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François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posterity

Gossec's "Gavotte" from his opera Rosine, ou L'épouse abandonnée (1786), remains familiar in popular culture because Carl Stallings and Charles M. Jones used arrangements of it in several Warner Brothers cartoons, notably in "Porky’s Cafe’’ (1942). -- adapted from Wikipedia

Gossec wrote a fine gavotte;

Stallings liked it, and it got

Featured in a cartoon short.

Gossec’s ghost was heard to snort,

Saying it was infra dig

To share the screen with Porky Pig.

 

 

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