Antonio Salieri

The Italian opera composer Antonio Salieri was born near Verona on 18 August 1750 and died in Vienna nearly 75 years later, on 7 May 1825, having stopped composing in the early 1800s when his style went out of fashion. His pupils included Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt, and he was himself taught by Pescetti and Gassmann, with later advice from Christoff Willibald Gluck. He composed about 40 operas in French, German and Italian, including the scandalous Les Danaïdes, and his output also includes cantatas, chamber music, concertos, harpsichord sonatas, masses, oratorios and symphonies.