Stamaty, Camille Marie

STAMATY, Camille Marie, son of a Greek father and a very musical French mother, was born at Rome, March 23, 1811. After the death of his father in 1818 his mother returned to France, remained some time at Dijon, and finally went to Paris. There, after long coquetting between music and business as a profession, Stamaty, in 1828, took an employé's post in the Prefecture of the Seine. But music retained its influence on him, and under Fessy and Kalkbrenner...