NICCOLA See also:

• NICCOLA PICCINNI (1728-1800)

PICCINNI (1728-1800)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian musical composer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BARI
• BARI (anc. Barium)

Bari on the 16th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1728 . He was educated under See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo and See also:

• DURANTE, FRANCESCO (1684-1755)

Durante, at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio in See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples . For this See also:

• PICCINNI, NICCOLA (1728-1800)

Piccinni had to thank the intervention of the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Bari, his See also:

• FATHER

father, although himself a musician, being opposed to his son's following a musical career . His first See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, Le See also:

• DONNE, JOHN (1573–1631)

Donne dispettose, was produced in 1755, and in 176o he composed, at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, the chef d'oeuvre of his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life, La Cecchina, ossia la boon Figliuola, an opera See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

buff a which attained a See also:

• EUROPEAN

European success . Six ~ reign of See also:

• CONRADIN, or CONRAD THE YOUNGER (1252–1268)

Conradin, and again returned to See also:

• SIENA

Siena with the help years after this Piccinni was invited by See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen.See also:

• MARIE

Marie Antoinette to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . He had married in 1756 his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil Vincenza Sibilla, a See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, whom he never allowed after her See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to appear on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . All his next See also:

• WORKS

works were successful; but, unhappily, the See also:

• DIRECTORS

directors of the See also:

• GRAND

Grand Opera conceived the mad See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of deliberately opposing him to See also:

• GLUCK

Gluck, by persuading the two composers to treat the same subject—Iphigenie en Tauride—simultaneously . The Parisian public now divided itself into two See also:

• RIVAL

rival parties, which, under the names of Gluckists and Piccinnists, carried on an unworthy and disgraceful See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war . Gluck's masterly Iphigenie was first produced on the 18th of May 1779 . Piccinni's Iphigenie followed on the 23rd of January 1781, and, though performed seventeen times, was afterwards consigned to oblivion . The fury of the rival parties continued unabated, even after Gluck's departure from Paris in 1780; and an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt was after-wards made to inaugurate a new rivalry with See also:

• SACCHINI, ANTONIO MARIA GASPARE (1734-1786)

Sacchini . Still, Piccinni held a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good position, and on the See also:

• DEATH

death of Gluck, in 1787, proposed that a public See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument should be erected to his memory—a See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion which the Gluckists themselves declined to support .

In 1784 Piccinni was See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the Royal School of See also:

• MUSIC

Music, one of the institutions from which the See also:

• CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire was formed in 1794 . On the breaking out of the Revolution in 1789 Piccinni returned to Naples, where he was at first well received by See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand IV.; but the marriage of his daughter to a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French democrat brought him into irretrievable disgrace . For nine years after this he maintained a See also:

• PRECARIOUS

precarious existence in See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, Naples and Rome; but he returned in 1798 to Paris, where the fickle public received him with See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm, but See also:

• LEFT

left him to starve . He died at Passy, near Paris, on the 7th of May 'Soo . After his death a memorial tablet was set up in the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house in which he was born at Bari . The most See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his works is that given in the Rivista musicale italiana, viii . 75 . He produced over eighty operas, but although his later See also:

• WORK

work shows the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the French and See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German stage, he belongs to the conventional Italian school of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . See also P . L . Ginguene, See also:

• NOTICE

Notice sur la See also:

• VIE

vie et See also:

• LES

les ouvrages de Niccolo Piccinni (Paris, 18o1) ; E . Demoiresterres, La Musique francaise au 18' siecle Gluck et Piccinni 1794–1800 (Paris, 1872) .