Niccolò van Westerhout

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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. At the age of ten he composed arias, duets and dances, and when he was thirteen an overture to Shakespeare's drama Julius Caesar . He studied at the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he settled after completing his education.

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

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SURNAME Westerhout, Niccolò van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mola di Bari
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1898
Place of death Naples