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FERDINANDO See also:PAER (1771-1839)
, See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Parma on the 1st of See also:June 1771
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He studied the theory of See also:music under the violinist Ghiretti, a See also:pupil of the See also:Conservatoire della Pieta de' Turchini at See also:Naples
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His first See also:opera, La Locanda de' vagebondi, was published when he was only sixteen; others rapidly followed, and his name was soon famous throughout See also:Italy
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In 1797 he went to See also:Vienna, where his wife, the See also:singer Riccardi, had obtained an engagement at the opera; here he produced a See also:series of operas, including his La Camilla ossia it Sotteraneo (1799) and his Achille (18ot)
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In 1803 he was appointed composer to the See also:court See also:theatre at See also:Dresden, where his wife was also engaged as a singer, and in 1804 the See also:life See also:appointment of Hofkapellmeister was bestowed upon him by the elector
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At Dresden he produced, inter alia, Il Sargino (1803),
an opera which obtained a wide popularity, and Leonora (1804), based on the same See also:story as See also:Beethoven's Fidelio
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In 1807 See also:Napoleon while in Dresden took a• See also:fancy to him, and took him with him to See also:Warsaw and See also:Paris at a See also:salary of 28,000 francs
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In 1812 he succeeded See also:Spontini as conductor of the Italian opera in Paris
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This See also:post he retained at the Restoration, receiving also the posts of chamber composer to the See also: See also:Paer wrote in all 43 operas, in the Italian See also:style of Paesiello and See also:Cimarosa . His other See also:works, which include nine religious compositions, 'thirteen cantatas, and a See also:short See also:list of orchestral and chamber pieces, are of little importance; in any See also:case the superficial quality of his compositions was such as to secure him popularity while he lived and after his See also:death oblivion . See R . Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon (See also:Leipzig, 1902), vii . 277, sqq., where a list of his works is given . |
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