Nicolas Roze

He was invited to enter the King's music as a page, but his parents preferred to have him finish his studies at the Beaune college and then at the Autun seminary.

After spending a few years at the Cathédrale Saint-Maurice d'Angers, he settled in Paris, where in 1775 he became a chapel master in the Église des Saints-Innocents [fr].

In 1779, after a dispute with the ecclesiastical authorities, he devoted himself to the teaching of music and wrote his system of harmony, which was published by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde.

His motet Vivat in æternum was performed during the coronation of Napoleon (2 December 1804) under the direction of his former student Jean-François Lesueur.

But one reason for this was that his use in military music had grown strongly during the Revolution and the Empire, and whose teaching at that time was often diffused by private teachers for lack of schools.