Italian composer. [...] he first studied music with his father, Omobono Nicolini, organist and maestro di cappella in Piacenza, and singing with Filippo Macedone. [...] he studied composition for seven years, probably from 1778 to 1784, at the Conservatorio di S Onofrio in Naples [...]. After composing the oratorio Daniele nel lago dei leoni (1781, Naples) and the azione sacra Giuditta (1785, Venice), he made his opera début with La famiglia stravagante (1793, Parma) [...]. In 1807 in Rome, his Traiano in Dacia, starring the castrato Velluti, defeated Cimarosa's much-loved classic Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi in a contest for popular favour. [...] He abandoned the theatre completely in 1831 to devote himself to sacred music.
Source: Andrea Lanza: Giuseppe Niccolini quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 07 February 2010
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