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[[File:Sébastien Demar.png|thumb|<center>Sébastien Demar, after Jean Fouquet. 1795</center>]]
'''Jakob-Ignaz-Sebastian Demar''' (29 June 1763 – (often wrongly called '''Jean-Sébastien Demar'''<ref>By approximate resemblance to the initials and first name of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]].</ref> or much more recently '''Jacques-Sébastien'''<ref>He is named as follows in the online article [http://bit.ly/2UMQlNA ''Rosalie Tognini'', corniste] 25 July 1832)</ref> was a French pianist, composer, [[Conducting|conductor]], music teacher and organist.
<ref>Civil status of Orléans, which gave Altbenisgesang (in fact Altbessingen, near Gauaschach) as his birthplace.</ref>
== Biography ==
Born in the vicinity of Gauaschach, near [[Bad Kissingen]], north of [[Würzburg]], in [[Lower Franconia]] (Germany), on 29 June 1763, he died in [[Orléans]], on 25 July 1832. He was the son of music teacher Sebastien Demar and his wife Dorothée Zugis.<ref>Cf. his death certificate, at the Orléans civil registry office (25 July 1832, act ).</ref>
Born into a family of musicians, he was first trained at the [[Strasbourg Cathedral]] by the ''[[Kapellmeister]]'' and composer [[Franz Xaver Richter]], representative (in the same way as [[Johann Stamitz]]) of the [[Mannheim School]]. Then he became organist in [[Wissembourg]], (Alsace). He also traveled to [[Vienna]] (Austria) to further his studies in the field of [[Music composition|composition]], with [[Joseph Haydn]]. He arrived in Paris in 1788 and settled in Orléans in 1789, shortly before the [[French Revolution|Revolution]]. Demar did a lot for music in the city, where he first directed the music of the 88th Regiment (he was in place on 23 December 1791),<ref>''Journal général du département du Loiret. Announcements, Posters, and various Opinions of the City of Orléans'', 23 December 1791, .</ref> then of the [[National Guard (France)|National Guard]]. In 1799, he was appointed by the municipality to play the organ as an amateur at Republican festivals, in the various "temples" (the old churches) where they were held: the [[plain-song]] gave way to the "war song".
At the beginning of the 19th century (1802?), Demar became "master of [pianoforte]" in the ''Maison d'éducation de Mme Robillard, in Orléans''. In 1806, he created the ''Société des Concerts par Abonnement''. Following the course of history, he was also organist of Saint-Paterne's church from 1815... In this context he was able to train "choir children" (boys singing in the professional choir) in the technique of the [[pianoforte]] and the organ.
He belonged to the Masonic lodge "Saint-Jean", but he was only a very close neighbour of the ''Société des Belles-Lettres'' (the ''Académie'', created in 1809). At that time, the Academy did not have any musicians among its members.
He left many interesting works, often instrumental. He is the author, among others, of several concertos for forte-piano, including a "hunting concerto", a Cossack concerto, a concerto dedicated to the [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma|Empress Marie-Louise]].
He transcribed for [[harp]] one of his [[violin concerto]]s so that it could be performed by his daughter Theresia in a public concert in Paris.
== Family ==
Her daughter, Thérésia-Elisabeth-Françoise Demar (Theresia Demar) married [[Jean-Nicolas Gannal]], pharmacist, chemist and inventor of modern embalming. She herself was a harpist, composer and music teacher. We also know that she was singing.<ref>Cf. Orléans. Médiathèque. Rés. E-18175.32. ''Élégie sur le tombeau de Selma.''</ref> She lived several years in Paris and finally ended her life in Orléans. She died in this city on January 18, 1858, at 71 years of age<ref>Etat civil d'Orléans. January 19, 1858. n°92.</ref> She left more than thirty musical compositions, which were published at the time. They are kept at the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|BnF]]<ref>[http://bit.ly/1xCPHR3 Partitions de Theresia Demar. Catalogue « Opale plus » de la BnF (32 notices).]</ref> essentially. Her [[cantata]] ''[[Saint Cecilia|Sainte-Cécile]]'' (éd. Orléans, Gatineau, 1851) had been written on the words of the Orléans historian and bibliophile [[Jean Michel Constant Leber]].
Demar was born in [[Gernsbach]] (Duchy of [[Baden]]) 30 October 1786. Her death certificate indicates that she was the daughter of "Jacob-Ignace-Sébastien Demar, music teacher, and of Dame Elisabeth Riesam".<ref>She is explicitly mentioned, as well as her brother Joseph-Pierre, on the genealogical website (familysearch.org) of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] ([[mormonism]]) which identifies and baptizes according to its rites all human beings recorded in ancient civil registers. Cf. [http://bit.ly/2UKW1aT Site généalogique des mormons]</ref> Other erroneous sources, give her birth in Paris in 1788.
== Bibliography ==
* Hervé Audéon, ''Demar (Johann-Sebastian)'', in ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe'' (ed. Joël-Marie Fauquet, Paris, [[Fayard]], 2003).
* Id., ''Catalogue des concertos pour pianos édités pour la première fois à Paris entre 1795 et 1815'', June 1999. Catalogue published on the database [http://bit.ly/2ZGjsFX Philidor] of the [[Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles]], November 2003, 54 p. ( : ''Démar [Jacques-Ignace-]Sébastien'', 3 concertos).
* François Turellier, ''Les orgues et les organistes de la cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’Orléans. Leur place à l’église et dans la ville, des origines jusqu’aux travaux d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll'', in ''L’Orgue'', Quarterly review published by the Association des Amis de l'Orgue in co-publication with ''Symétrie'', , Versailles, Lyon, 2010-III, ().
== References ==
== External links ==
* [http://bit.ly/2UPLNGw] Website of the ''Orfeo Barockorchester [[Linz]]'' (Austria): (''Programmes at-a-glance'' / ''From the Early Classical to the Romantics'').
* The [[Répertoire International des Sources Musicales]] (RISM) lists about forty scores published by Demar. The [http://bit.ly/2ZI9K5Z RISM online] only lists manuscripts. Both directories are incomplete.
* See also Sébastien Demar, as author, on the CCFR website ([[Bibliothèque nationale de France|BnF]]) : [http://bit.ly/2UMtbXQ Sébastien Demar]
* [http://bit.ly/2ZFLuSg Portrait de Sébastien Demar]
* [http://bit.ly/2UMBBOS ''Six duos pour clarinettes, par S. Demar'' (numérisation BnF. Site Gallica)]
* [http://bit.ly/2ZK6ZBt Worldcat localizes several scores or reprints of works by Sébastien Demar]
* [http://bit.ly/2UNG9Vn Several works by Thérèse (Theresia) Demar], on [[Worldcat]]
* [http://bit.ly/2ZHVaeI Thérèse Demar on the website of the ''Sophie Drinker Institut'']
[[Category:1763 births]]
[[Category:1832 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Bad Kissingen]]
[[Category:French classical composers]]
[[Category:French classical organists]]
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