The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Niedermeyer, Louis

NIEDERMEYER, nē'dĕr-mī-ĕr, Louis, Swiss composer: b. Nyon, 27 April 1802; d. Paris, 14 March 1861. He studied under Moscheles in Vienna, and in Italy with Fioravanti and Zingarelli and settled in Paris. He met with no great success in operatic music, such as &lsquo;Marie Stuart&rsquo; (1844) and &lsquo;La Fronde&rsquo; (1853), and thereafter devoted himself to religious music, his true vocation, not only composing but teaching and editing a journal called La Meîtrise. His opera &lsquo;Stradella&rsquo; and his melody for Lamartine's &lsquo;Lac&rsquo; are his best compositions of a secular sort. His training school for religious music was aided by the French government.