Valentino Fioravanti was a celebrated Italian composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of opera buffa

Opera buffa

Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...

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One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school...

 and Gioacchino Rossini

Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...

. He was especially popular in Naples, and was the first in Italy to introduce spoken dialogue in the French manner in his works, sometimes using the Napolitan dialect. His works included some 70 operas, the most famous being Le cantatrici villane from 1799.

His eldest son, Giuseppe Fioravanti

Giuseppe Fioravanti

Giuseppe Fioravanti was an Italian opera singer active during the first half of the 19th century. Although one of the most important and popular basso buffos of his generation, there is only a relatively small amount of information available about his life...

, was a successful opera singer, and his younger son, Vincenzo Fioravanti (1799-1877), also became a celebrated opera buffa composer, writing 35 stage works. His grandsons, Valentino Fioravanti (1827-79) and Luigi Fioravanti (1829-87), had successful opera careers as basso buffo

Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...

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Selected works

• Camilla
• Il furbo contr'il furbo
• Il fabbro Parigino
• I virtuosi ambulanti
• I viaggiatori ridicoli
• Le cantatrici villane
  Le cantatrici villane
  Le cantatrici villane is a comic opera in two acts composed by Valentino Fioravanti to a libretto by Giovanni Palomba. It was first performed in Naples in 1799...
  
  

Sources

• The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, (Wings Books, 1993), ISBN 0-517-09156-9

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