Giuseppe Nicolini
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Giuseppe Nicolini was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to religious music
. He was born and died at Piacenza.
Religious music
Religious music is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.A lot of music has been composed to complement religion, and many composers have derived inspiration from their own religion. Many forms of traditional music have been adapted to fit religions'...
. He was born and died at Piacenza.
Operas
Nicolini's opera include:- La famiglia stravagante (dramma giocosoDramma giocosoDramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole...
, 1793, ParmaParmaParma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
) - La clemenza di Tito (opera seriaOpera seriaOpera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...
, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1797, LivornoLivornoLivorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...
) - I due fratelli ridicoli (Li fratelli ridicoli) (dramma giocoso, libretto by Filippo Livigni, 1798, RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
) - Il trionfo del bel sesso (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni BertatiGiovanni BertatiGiovanni Bertati is an Italian librettist.In 1763, Bertati wrote his first libretto, La morte di Dimone , set to music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later, L'isola della fortuna , based on Bertati's libretto and Andrea Luchesi's music, was performed in Vienna...
, 1799) - I baccanali di Roma (1801, MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
) - Il geloso innamorato (farsa, libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi, 1804, NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
) - Traiano in Dacia (opera seria, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, 1807, Rome)
- Le due gemelle (farsa, 1808, Rome)
- Coriolano ossia L'assedio di Roma (opera seria, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, 1808, Milan)
- Angelica e Medoro ossia L'Orlando (opera seria, libretto by Gaetano Sertor from Pietro Metastasio, 1810, TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
) - Abradate e Dircea (opera seria, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, 1811, Milan)
- Quinto Fabio (Quinto Fabio Rutililiano) (opera seria, libretto by Giuseppe Rossi, 1811, Vienna)
- La casa dell'astrologo (dramma giocoso, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, 1811, Milan)
- Le nozze dei Morlacchi (I Morlacchi) (opera seria, 1811, Vienna)
- La feudataria ossia Il podestà ridicolo (dramma giocoso, 1812, PiacenzaPiacenzaPiacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...
) - Carlo Magno (opera seria, libretto by Antonio Peracchi, 1813, Piacenza)
- L'eroe di Lancastro (opera seria, libretto by Giuseppe Rossi, 1821, Turin)
- Aspasia e Agide (opera seria, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, 1824, Milan)
Sources
- The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music, "Giuseppe Nicolini", Oxford University Press, Inc., 1994. Accessed online from Answers.com, 13 October 2009.
- The list of operas is translated from Giuseppe Nicolini on the Italian Wikipedia.