Niedermeyer, Louis
(1802–1861)> COMPOSER
Niedermeyer, Louis (27 April 1802, Nyon; 14 March 1861, Paris), composer, left his native Switzerland from Vienna in 1817 to study piano under Moscheles and composition under Foerster . He published his first pieces for the piano during his residence in the Austrian capital, and he went to Rome in 1819 to study with Fioravanti . In Italy, he took lessons in voice from Zingarelli . While in Naples, he wrote his first opera, Il Reo per amore but then returned to Geneva in 1821 to set Lamartine ’s…