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Etienne Nicolas Mehul () was in his day France's most popular composer.
Étienne Nicolas Méhul
Etienne Nicolas Méhul (June 22, – October 18, ) was a Frenchcomposer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution."[1] He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".[2]
Life
Méhul was born at Givet in Ardennes to Jean-François Méhul - a wine merchant - and his wife Marie-Cécile (née Keuly).
His first music lessons came from a blind local organist, but he had innate aptitude and was sent to study with a German musician and organist, Wilhelm Hanser, at the monastery of Lavaldieu, a few miles from Givet. Here Méhul developed his lifelong love of flowers.[3]
In or he went to Paris and began to study with Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, a harpsichord player and friend of Méhul's idol Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
Méhul's first published composition was a book of piano pieces in He also arra