François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens... Wikipedia
Born: March 25, 1784, Mons, Belgium
Died: March 26, 1871 (age 87 years), Brussels, Belgium
Children: Adolphe Louis Eugène Fétis and Édouard Fétis
Spouse: Adélaïde-Louise-Catherine Robert (m. 1806–1866)
Works written: Correspondance