Andrea Lucchesi

(1741—1801)

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Lucchesi was born in Motta di Livenza, Treviso, and studied at the Conservatory of the Incurabili in Venice. He wrote his first opera in 1765 and met the Mozart family on their tour in Italy in 1771. The following year, he went to Germany as a member of a theatre troupe which, however, disbanded in 1774. He was appointed court music director at the court of the Prince Elector of Cologne, where he succeeded Beethoven's grandfather. Ludwig van Beethoven himself was a violinist in the orchestra which Lucchesi headed. Lucchesi composed a great number of operas and sacred works in Bonn and published his «Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin Acccompaniment» there in 1772. Lucchesi died in Bonn in 1801.