Giacomo Insanguine
Illustration — Giacomo Insanguine portrait Giacomo Antonio Francesco Paolo Michele Insanguine (also called Giacomo Monopoli after his birthplace Monopoli; 22 March 1728 – 1 February 1795) was an Italian composer, organist, and music educator. He was the last director (primo maestro) of the conservatoire of Sant'Onofrio in Naples, which merged in 1795, two years after Insanguine's death in Naples, with the conservatoire of Santa Maria di Loreto. The most important and up-to-date critical study on him was recently published in an Anthology of unpublished eighteenth-century music in Puglia.
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Giacomo Insanguine
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- Born
- 1728. · Monopoli.
- Died
- 1795. · Naples.
- Occupation
- composer, organist and music educator.
- Fields
- music and opera.
- Teachers
- Girolamo Abos, Francesco Durante and Francesco Feo.
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Illustration — Giacomo Insanguine portrait Giacomo Antonio Francesco Paolo Michele Insanguine (also called Giacomo Monopoli after his birthplace Monopoli; 22 March 1728 – 1 February 1795) was an Italian composer, organist, and music educator. He was the last director (primo maestro) of the conservatoire of Sant'Onofrio in Naples, which merged in 1795, two years after Insanguine's death in Naples, with the conservatoire of Santa Maria di Loreto. The most important and up-to-date critical study on him was recently published in an Anthology of unpublished eighteenth-century music in Puglia.
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Training under Girolamo Abos, Francesco Durante and Francesco Feo is recorded. Giuseppe Nicolini is recorded as having studied under Giacomo Insanguine. The field of work recorded is music and opera. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Work by Giacomo Insanguine is recorded in the collections of Procuratoria di San Marco musical archive.
On August 23, 1767, he became a teacher at the Conservatory of Sant'Onofrio. In the winter of 1768, he conducted the comic opera L'osteria di Marechiaro, which was a great success. On January 20, 1770, he performed La Didone abbandonata, an opera previously commissioned from Baldassarre Galuppi, at the Teatro San Carlo.
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Insanguine, Giacomo (1728-1795). Compositeur · Bibliothèque nationale de France
Présentation musicale: Partition
Insanguine, Giacomo (1728-1795). Compositeur · Bibliothèque nationale de France
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- 1.G. Sanguinetti, The Art of Partimento, Oxford University Press, 2012, p.84.
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- 3.cita web http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/insanguine-giacomo-detto-monopoli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ voce Insanguine, Giacomo, detto Monopoli 20 luglio 2018
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