Piccinni, Louis
(1766–1827)> COMPOSER
Piccinni, Louis (1766, Naples; 31 July 1827, Passy), composer, was the second son of Niccolò Piccinni , author of Didon, but he did not inherit his father’s gift for musical composition despite the number of works that he wrote for the theatre. He had Les Amours de Chérubin (1784) given in the Beaujolais theatre at the start of his career. After two other pieces that had little success, he gave his Les Infidelités imaginaires (1790) to the Louvois theatre. The following year he went to Italy…