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FROM ROME: From December 2009 until March 2023, the late Giuseppe Pennisi sent us regular reports from the Italian opera and classical music scene.
French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul was born at Givet in Northern France on 22 June 1763. He was known especially for his operas, but also wrote ballets, vocal music, piano music, overtures and symphonies.
Étienne Méhul died from tuberculosis in Paris on 18 October 1817, aged fifty-four.