Schneitzhoeffer, Jean-Madeleine (1785, Paris; September 1852, Paris), composer, was the son of a musician at the Opéra, and he was accordingly enrolled in the Conservatoire after showing an early interest in music. He studied harmony and composition with Charles-Simon Catel and had a symphony played at the gatherings of amateur musicians in the rue de Grenelle (see eighteenth-century volume for Catel). In 1815, he became tympanist at the Opéra and in the royal chapel. He gave up percussion…