Guillaume-Louis Cottrau (10 August 1797 in Paris – 31 October 1847 in Naples) was a French composer and music publisher. Arrived in Naples with his father who served

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also , ; it, Gioacchino Murati; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the ...

, the King of Naples, Cottrau undertook the publication of ''Passatempi Musicali'', a collection of Neapolitan songs, some of his composition. Thanks to this, the

canzone Napoletana Canzone napoletana (), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song ( nap, canzona napulitana ), is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented b ...

crossed the borders of the kingdom and reached great diffusion and popularity abroad. One of his themes was taken up by

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

for his '' Tarentelle napolitaine'' included in the ''

Années de pèlerinage ''Années de pèlerinage'' (French for ''Years of Pilgrimage'') ( S.160, S.161, S.162, S.163) is a set of three suites for solo piano by Franz Liszt. Much of it derives from his earlier work, ''Album d'un voyageur'', his first major published pi ...

''. Guglielmo was the father of composer

Teodoro Cottrau Teodoro Cottrau (7 December 1827, in Naples – 30 March 1879, in Naples) was an Italian composer, lyricist, publisher, journalist and politician. He specialised in "folksy" Neapolitan songs. His arrangement of Santa Lucia was published in 1850 ...

.Cottrau, Guillaume
treccani.it

References

External links

''La ricciolella'' (Cottrau, Guillaume Louis)
on IMSLP
''Lu rammaglietto'' (Cottrau, Guillaume Louis)
on IMSLP
Guillaume Louis Cottrau
on Musopen
Guillaume Louis Cottrau
on Associated Chamber Music Players {{DEFAULTSORT:Cottrau, Guillaume-Louis Musicians from Paris 1797 births 1847 deaths 19th-century French musicologists 19th-century French musicians 19th-century musicologists