Giuseppe Nicolini
Illustration — Giuseppe Nicolini on a stipple engraving by Luigi Rados (1773–1840) Giuseppe Nicolini (or Niccolini; 29 January 1762 – 18 December 1842) 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 in Piacenza.
Giuseppe Nicolini
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- Occupation
- composer · chapelmaster
- Fields
- opera
- Teachers
- Giacomo Insanguine
- Languages
- Italian
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The music conservatory of Piacenza is named after him.
Nicolini's operas include: • La famiglia stravagante (dramma giocoso, 1793, Parma) • La clemenza di Tito (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1797, Livorno) • I due fratelli ridicoli (Li fratelli ridicoli) (dramma giocoso, libretto by Filippo Livigni, 1798, Rome) • Il trionfo del bel sesso (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Bertati, 1799) • I baccanali di Roma (1801, Milan) • Il geloso innamorato (farsa, libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi, 1804, 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, Turin) • 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, 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)
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