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Place of Birth: Champ-sur-Layon, Pays de la Loire, France
About Joseph Gelineau
- Joseph Gelineau (Champ-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, 31 October 1920 – Sallanches, 8 August 2008) was a French Catholic Jesuit priest and composer, mainly of modern Christian liturgical music.
- He was a member of the translation committee for La Bible de Jérusalem (1959).Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1941, Gelineau studied theology at a Catholic seminary in Lyon and music in Paris.
- He was one of the founders of the international study group on music and liturgy Universa Laus. Heavily influenced by Gregorian chant, he developed his Gelineau psalmody which is used worldwide.
- Later he composed numerous chants for the ecumenical French Taizé Community.
- He was associated with the Institut Catholique de Paris.
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