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'''Niccolo Piccinni''', (1728-1800), [[Italian]] composer who, for a time in [[Paris]] in the 1770s and 1780’s rivalled [[Christoph Willibald von Gluck]] in immediate influence, but has languished in long-term popularity.  

'''Niccolo Piccinni''', (1728-1800) was an [[Italian]] composer who, for a time in [[Paris]] in the 1770s and 1780’s rivalled [[Christoph Willibald von Gluck]] in immediate influence, but has languished in long-term popularity.  

He was an extremely popular composer of [[opera]]s and sacred works in [[Italy]] before venturing to [[Paris]] in 1776, where his success brought about a “war of the Gluckists and the Piccinnists” that occasionally came to blows (though not, it seems, between the two gentlemen concerned - Gluck at least is known to have enjoyed Piccinni's work.) Piccinni was forced back to Italy by the [[French Revolution]], returned to Paris in 1798, but died there, in poverty, in 1800.  

He was an extremely popular composer of [[opera]]s and sacred works in [[Italy]] before venturing to [[Paris]] in 1776, where his success brought about a “war of the Gluckists and the Piccinnists” that occasionally came to blows (though not, it seems, between the two gentlemen concerned - Gluck at least is known to have enjoyed Piccinni's work.) Piccinni was forced back to Italy by the [[French Revolution]], returned to Paris in 1798, but died there, in poverty, in 1800.