Léon Charles François Kreutzer

Léon Charles François Kreutzer, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Parigi on the 23th September 1817, the same year of the composers Agnelli, Deldevez, Duggan, Gade, German Reed, Gregoir, Katski, Kuntze, Lefébure-Wély, Mabellini, Maillart, Pedrotti, Robson, Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Thern, Tiehsen. He died in Vichy on the 6th October 1868

Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Romanticism

"The Departure" (1837), oil on canvas, 100.3 x 160 cm, of the painter Thomas Cole, contemporary of Kreutzer (The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington)