Salomon, Johann Peter (1745-1815)

German violinist, conductor, manager, and composer. He lived in London from 1780, where he arranged concerts. He wrote four French operas and an English one, Windsor Castle, for the marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1795, an oratorio Hiskias, and violin sonatas.

He studied at Bonn and joined the electoral orchestra in 1758. After a tour in 1765 he became court musician at Rheinsberg to Prince Henry of Prussia, who, however, dissolved his orchestra about 1780, when Salomon went to Paris and thence to London, 1781, where he settled as concert violinist, quartet player, and conductor. He gave subscription concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms and invited Haydn to London in 1790 and again in 1794, later arranging for smaller forces some of the symphonies which Haydn wrote for London.