Benoit Mozin Explained

Benoit François Mozin called le jeune (the younger) (21 March 1769 – 1 December 1857) was a French composer.

Life

Born in Paris, Mozin^[1] was first a pupil of François-Joseph Gossec, and then became a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris (until 1802), where Victor Dourlen was among his pupils. He later married the daughter of Louis Joseph Guichard,^[2] singing teacher, in his third marriage.

They had two children: the eldest, the marine painter Charles Mozin, discoverer of Trouville-sur-Mer, and his brother, the composer Théodore Mozin, second Grand Prix de Rome in musical composition in 1841 (a pupil of Henri-Montan Berton and Fromental Halévy).

Mozin was a member of the "Société académique des enfants d'Apollon"^[3] and of the .

He left about 60 scores for the piano including Souvenir de Trouville, Op. 19, a title revived by his son Theodore (Quadrille, Op. 22).

After he died in 1857 in Sèvres, Mozin was buried at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (8th division).^[4]

Works (BnF)

• À l'auguste famille des Bourbon, romance sur des paroles de madame Mozin
• Les quatre saisons, musique italienne, composition by Guillaume André Villoteau with piano accompaniment by Benoit Mozin
• 6e pot-pourri d'airs connus pour le piano forte (1792)
• Concerto de Maestrino, arranged for harpsichord or forte piano
• Six romances avec accompagnement pour le forte piano (1796)
• Scene of the 1st act of Gluck's Alceste arranged for the forte piano (1800)
• Air del signor Biani, accompaniment by Mozin le jeune
• Les glouglous, chanson bachique on lyrics of (Béranger)
• Pour toi, romance, lyrics by M. de Segur jeune
• Les souvenirs, collection of contradances for the piano forte
• Un précepte d'Hippocrate, bacchanalian song (1822)
• Les adieux d'un cosaque, fantasy for the piano forte dedicated to S.A. Monseigneur Alexandre prince of Kourakin (Alexander Kurakin)
• Le retour du carnaval, contradanses and walzes
• Souvenir de Trouville, galop en rondo for piano Op.19
• Sonata Op.12
• 3rd collection of romances with accompaniment for the piano forte (1799)
• 3 sonatas for the piano forte (1798)

Sources

• Constant Pierre: Le Conservatoire national de musique et déclamation, Paris 1900, Imprimerie nationale

Notes and References

1. https://gw.geneanet.org/francoispiet?lang=fr&n=mozin&oc=0&p=benoit+francois Genealogy of the Mozin family, established by Francois Piet
2. http://data.bnf.fr/14804418/louis-joseph_guichard/ Louis Joseph Guichard
3. https://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/musiquefr-18/salles/paris/salleconcert/salon/enfants.html "Société académique des enfants d'Apollon"
4. Web site: Notice sur le site des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise . 2018-09-24 . 2018-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180621015608/https://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=2867 . dead .