Daussoigne-Méhul, Louis-Joseph
(1790–1875)> COMPOSER
Daussoigne-Méhul, Louis-Joseph (10 June 1790, Givet; 10 March 1875, Liége), composer, was the nephew and then the adopted son of Etienne-Henri Méhul , who enrolled his ward in the Conservatoire in 1799 so that he might study piano with Adolphe-Charles Adam , harmony with Charles Catel , and composition with Luigi Cherubini and Méhul himself (see eighteenth-century volume for Méhul, Catel, and Cherubini). He proved to be quite gifted and won the Prix de Rome competition in 1809. While he was at…