Paër, Ferdinand
(1771–1859)> COMPOSER
Paër, Ferdinand (1 June 1771, Parma; 3 May 1859, Paris), composer, learned the rudiments of music as a child and studied composition with an organist of his native city and Ghiretti , a graduate of the Pietà de’ Turguini conservatory. Not a very patient youth with his teachers, he left school at age 16 to start an active career in the theatre. La Locanda de’ vagabondi was his first work followed by I Pretendenti burlati before Paër was age 17. The success of these two operas spread beyond the…