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Johann Simon Mayr
Johann Simon Mayr, also Mayer or Maier (born in Mendorf, near Ingolstadt, June 13, 1763, died
December 2, 1845 in Bergamo) was a composer and teacher, active principally in Italy, where
he was most known under the name of Giovanni Simone Mayr.
Mayr’s success just after his debut in the operatic theater was immediate and widespread
throughtout Europe. It is therefore not surprising that he received offers for prestigious and
well-paid positions in Milan, Naples, Rome, London, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Dresden amd
Paris, where Napoleon offered him the position of Music Director of the Imperial Court. But he
refused all these prestigious positions, accepting in 1802 the “modest” position of Music Director
at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo where he had been a student in his youth.
In Bergamo he was intensely active, contributing to the foundation of culurale institutions,
among which a school for free music lessons, “Lezioni Caritatevoli di Musica”, which took the
place of the former Mariane College suppressed by Napoleone in 1802. Gaetano Donizetti was
among the first pupils to enter the school in 1806 amd he remained there for eight years.
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