Antonio Smareglia

Antonio Smareglia ( born May 5, 1854 in Pola (now Pula) on the peninsula of Istria, † April 15, 1929 in Grado) was an Italian composer.

Life

Smareglia was born in Pula at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula, which then belonged to Austria - Hungary. In his father's house in Via Nettuno now a museum was built in his life and work. He was the sixth ( but the first surviving ) child of Italian Francesco Smareglia, who came from Dignano, and the Croatian Giulia Stiglich of Icici. Smareglia married Maria Jette Polla, with whom he had five children. At the age of 46 years he became blind, and from then on he dictated his compositions the sons Ariberto and Mario, as well as his students and friends Primo dalla Zonca, Gastone Zuccholi and Vito Levi in the spring.

With Nozze Istriane ( A Istrian wedding) he wrote in 1895 an opera about his home, playing in his hometown.

Operas

  • Caccia lontana (Giovanni Pozza ) - Milan, August 10, 1875
  • Preciosa ( Angelo Zanardini by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spanish Student ) - Milan, November 20, 1879
  • Bianca because Cervia ( Fulvio Fulgonio; Pozza di Francesco ) - Milan, February 7, 1882
  • Re Nala ( Vincenzo Valle to A. De Gubernatis, Il ritorno ) - Venice, February 9, 1887 destroyed by the composer
  • Il vasallo di Szigeth ( Luigi Illica and Francesco Pozza ) - as the vassal of Szigeth in Vienna (October 4, 1889)
  • Cornill Schut ( Luigi Illica ) - Prague, May 20, 1893; as Cornelius Schut in Dresden (6 June 1893) and Vienna (23 November 1894); revised as I pittori Fiamminghi ( Trieste, January 21, 1928)
  • Nozze Istriane ( Luigi Illica ) - Trieste, March 28, 1895
  • La Falena ( Silvio Benco ) - Venice, Teatro Rossini, September 6, 1897 under the direction of Gialdino Gialdini
  • Oceana ( Silvio Benco ) - Milan, January 22, 1903
  • Abyss ( Silvio Benco ) - Milan, February 10, 1914

Other works

  • Salve regina
  • Pater noster
  • Ave Maria
  • Canzoni gradesi
  • Caccia Lontana for orchestra, 1876
  • Leonora, symphonic poem for orchestra, 1876

Literature and recordings

  • Smareglia Antonio (1854-1929) - Sveucilisna knjižnica u Puli ( University Library of Pula ), 2004
  • Nozze Istriane - Records recording with Renata Mattioli, Luigi Rumbo, Nestore Catalani, Guido Mazzini, Franco Pugliese, Dora Minarchi, the Orchestra of the RAI, Milan, headed by Pietro Argento, 1956
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