A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Androt, Albert

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1505281A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Androt, Albert


ANDROT, Albert Auguste, was born at Paris in 1781, and admitted into the Conservatoire in his fifteenth year. In 1799 he obtained a prize for his exercises in harmony, and four years afterwards, having gained the Prix de Rome for his 'Alcyone,' he was sent to that city to study under Guglielmi. During the first year of his residence in Rome he made such progress that his master commissioned him to write a requiem and another sacred composition. The latter, performed during Passion Week, excited so much admiration, that he was engaged to compose an opera for the autumn. He had scarcely completed the last scene when nature sank under the arduous labour, and the composer died on August 19, 1804. In the following October a De Profundis of his composition was performed in his memory at the church of San Lorenzo in Lucinia.

A short notice of this composer is to be found in the 'Dict. of Musicians' (1827). The above is taken from 'The British Minstrel.'