Reicha, Antoine-Joseph
(1770–1836)
ANTOINE-JOSEPH REICHAREICHA, ANTOINE-JOSEPHANTOINE-JOSEPH REICHA [* 1770-† 1836] Antoine-Joseph Reicha offered an original and fascinating perspective on music during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Of Czech descent, Reicha (or Rejcha) was educated in Vienna, where he studied under ALBRECHTSBERGER and Salieri, interacted with Haydn, and befriended Beethoven. He later settled in Paris, where he was appointed professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire in 1818, having…