Hyacinthe Jadin

Hyacinthe Jadin (27 April 1776 – 27 September 1800) was a French composer who came from a musical family.

At the age of 9, Jadin's first composition, a Rondo for piano, was published in the Journal de Clavecin.

The piece commemorated the one-year anniversary of the execution of Citizen Capet (the name given to Louis XVI during his trial for treason).

While chamber music formed a large part of Jadin's creative career, he is most well known for his progressive style of piano composition.

Jadin's works anticipated the music of Franz Schubert; his piano sonatas in particular display a proto-Romanticism, which in parts both rejected and extended the heritage of his Classical predecessors.