Louis Niedermeyer
Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (* April 27, 1802 in Nyon, Switzerland, † March 14, 1861 in Paris) was a French composer and writer of church music.
Life
Brought to the music from his father, Niedermeyer studied in Vienna piano with Ignaz Moscheles and composition with Emanuel Aloys Förster. Other teachers were Vincenzo Fioravanti 1819 in Rome and Nicola Antonio Zingarelli in Naples. During his stay in Rome he learned Gioachino Rossini know who assisted him in the production of some of his operas. 1820 Niedermeyer's first opera Il reo per amore was premiered in Naples with some success.
He spent the next three years as a music teacher in Geneva, in 1823 he went as Rossini to Paris, where he wrote four more operas in the next few years, the response has been very limited. Therefore, he devoted himself increasingly to church music.
In October 1853 he reorganized the music school founded by Alexandre- Étienne Choron and renamed it L' École Niedermeyer. His students included Gabriel Fauré, André Messager and Camille Saint- Saëns.
In 1861 he died in Paris. His school still exists today and many of his hymns are still being played.
Rossini continued his friend Niedermeyer a monument by the Et incarnatus est from its fair solennelle ( premiered on Cecilia Festival 1849) literally in the Christe eleison his Petite Messe solennelle quotes of 1863.