Piccinni

The composer who may have influenced Mozart was Piccinni not Puccini: typesetters generally do not believe that there was a composer called Piccinni until one has corrected this several times in proof.

Friendly Corrections Rosen, Charles 1992

Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, Italy, which emphasized classical training.

Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The On-Beat Brothers Nancy Ruhling 2011

: This is Teacher (ph) Piccinni and the (INAUDIBLE) from Pennsylvania.

CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008 2008

The celebrated Faustina, whose quarrel with Cuzzoni is as famous in the history of music as the war between Gluck and Piccinni, was less daring.

The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

Jostling elbows with him comes Gluck's chiefest rival, Piccinni, one of the most beautiful characters in history, a man who could wage a mortal combat in art, without bitterness toward his bitter rivals.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Piccinni, Weber, Mendelssohn, and Schumann; and Bizet, whose wife said after his death, that there was not a moment of their six years 'honeymoon she could regret or would not re-live.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Piccinni was the very beau ideal of a father and a husband.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

And he added bitterly: "He also _loved_ Piccinni."

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

Of the other participants in the Gluck-Piccinni feud there is not much to say.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

Madame Piccinni was given a pension, but she proudly declined to accept it purely as a charity, and asked that four pupils of the Conservatoire be assigned to her for instruction, which was done.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903