Niel
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Niel (?; ?), composer, has left no record of the circumstances surrounding his birth and death, and he would certainly have been forgotten by now if he had not done the music for Les Romans of 1736 and L’Ecole des amants of 1744. Fétis also attributes to him the score of Les Voyages de l’amour, although it is agreed that this opéra-ballet in four acts and a prologue was set by Boismortier (see seventeenth-century volume for opéraballet). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sort…