Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann
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Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, (born Paris, March 1785 - Paris, October 29, 1853), often known as Joseph Zimmermann, was a French pianist, composer, and music teacher.
Zimmermann's father was a piano maker. He attended the Paris Conservatory, studying piano with François Adrien Boieldieu; while a student there, he won first prizes for piano in 1800 and harmony in 1802. He would later study under Luigi Cherubini. Zimmermann became a piano assistant at the Conservatory in 1811 and a full professor there in 1816, serving until 1848; he refused a position as a professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1821. Among his students were Georges Bizet, Charles Gounod, Cesar Franck, Ambroise Thomas, and Charles-Valentin Alkan.
He wrote two operas, L'enlèvement and Nausicaa. He also composed two piano concertos, one piano sonata, and numerous other works for piano.
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- Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 1010-1011.
