Niccolò van Westerhout

Niccolò van Westerhout ( born December 17, 1857 in Mola di Bari; † August 21, 1898 in Naples) was an Italian composer.

Van Westerhout attended school in Mola and Monopoli and began playing the piano at the age of eight years. The age of ten he composed arias, duets and rounds the age of thirteen an overture to Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. He studied at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he settled after his education.

In addition to fifty piano works, thirty songs and twenty orchestral works ( including a symphony in C minor ) composed van Westerhout several operas: Cimbelino (premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome 1892), Colomba (UA at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples 1923), Fortunio (UA at the Teatro Lirico in Milan 1895) and Dona Flor (UA 1896 in Mola di Bari). Dona Flor, composed to a libretto by Arturo Colautti was played in 1900 in Breslau auchnin German language.

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  • Udo Bermbach: " Wagner and Italy", King & Neumann, 2010, ISBN 9783826043932, page 38
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  • Born in 1857
  • Died in 1898
  • Italian composer
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