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Grove Music Online
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Dennis LIBBY: 'Luigi Piccinni', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Luigi [Lodovico] Piccinni
(b ? Rome or Naples, 1764; d Passy, nr Paris, 31 July 1827). He was the third son (the second to survive) of Niccolò Piccinni, who was his teacher. When his father moved to Paris in 1776, Luigi remained in Naples, joining his parents about 1782; he published a set of piano sonatas with a toccata (Paris, 1782). In 1784 his first opéra comique was performed in Paris, followed by several others until 1790. In 1791 he returned with his father to Naples and had comic operas performed in several Italian cities during the period 1793–5. From 1796 to 1801 he was Kapellmeister at the Swedish court in Stockholm. He returned to Paris in 1801 and had several opéras comiques performed there, 1804–9; in 1810 he suffered a failure at the Opéra with Hippomène et Atalante. He thereafter confined his activities to the teaching of singing, except for one last unsuccessful opéra comique in 1819.
Luigi Piccinni seems to have been generally regarded as a mediocre composer. […] None of his operas was a great success, although some were published, along with songs and piano pieces."
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