Composer · 1763 - 1845
Johann Simon Mayr
Biography
Johann Simon Mayr (b Mendorf, nr Ingolstadt, Bavaria, 14 June 1763; d Bergamo, 2 Dec 1845). German composer, teacher and writer on music.
He was a leading figure in the development of opera seria in the last decade of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th.