Nourrit, Adolphe (3 March 1802, Montpellier; 8 March 1839, Naples), vocalist, was the eldest son of the tenor Louis Nourrit , but his father planned a career in business for him, and he worked as a bookkeeper and cashier for a commission house in Paris after graduating from Saint-Barbe (see eighteenth-century volume for Louis Nourrit ). He left this position in 1819 to take employment with an insurance company. Dissatisfied with this sort of work and determined to have a musical career, he…