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PAER, FERDINANDO (1771-1839)

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PAER, FERDINANDO (1771-1839) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Parma on the 1st of See also:June 1771. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. 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. In 1812 he succeeded See also:Spontini as conductor of the Italian opera in Paris. This See also:post he retained at the Restoration, receiving also the posts of chamber composer to the See also:king and conductor of the private See also:orchestra of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans. In 1823 he retired from the Italian opera in favour of See also:Rossini. In 1831 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy, and in 1832 was appointed conductor of his orchestra by King See also:Louis Philippe. He died on the 3rd of May 1839.

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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