Burgmuller, Frédéric
(*1804)> COMPOSER
Burgmuller, Frédéric (1804, Ratisbonne; ?), composer, studied music in his native city and then went to Cassel to study composition under Louis Spohr. He left for Paris after attracting the attention of the public in Germany by playing a piano concerto of his own composition there in 1832. He gave lessons on the piano in the French capital to support himself because his principal ambition was to remain there to write for the piano and for the stage. He did the score for La Péri in 1843 and for…