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The Mutiny before the Fall: Gossec’s Marche lugubre

François-Joseph Gossec wrote many nationalistic hymns and works for the band of National Guard. On 20 September, there was a Revolutionary fête held on the Champ de la Fédération in honour of the mutineers. Gossec wrote this march for that occasion, and the work, notable for its ‘crashing tam-tam, brass and drums, alternating with silence moved the soul to despair’.

Gossec: Slow march for the funeral honours which must be given at Federation Field on 20 September 1790 to the citizens who died in the Nancy affair

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