Role Composer | Died July 13, 1794 | |
Name Josse-Francois-Joseph Benaut Similar People Guillaume‑Chretien de Lamoign, Augustin Alexandre Darthe, Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette | ||
Josse-François-Joseph Benaut (c.1743, Gullegem, Belgium - 13 July 1794, in what is now Place de la Nation, Paris) was a Belgian composer, organist and harpsichordist who was guillotined during the French Revolution. His father Charles Benaut was an organist in Wulveringen in Flanders. Josse-François-Joseph Benaut set himself up in Paris as a harpsichord tutor and in 1771 married the daughter of a Flemish merchant.
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