Potier, Henri-Hippolyte
(1816–1878)> COMPOSER
Potier, Henri-Hippolyte (10 February 1816, Paris, 9 October 1878, Paris), composer, studied at the Conservatoire for ten years between 1827 and 1837. A pupil of Amédée , Zimmerman , Dourlen , and Lecoupey , he won first prizes for piano and accompaniment before studying counterpoint and fugue. He began his career as a musician and composer by teaching and by writing Mademoiselle de Méranges (1841), Le Caquet du couvent (1846), and Il Signor Pascariello (1848) for the Opéra-Comique. He became…