Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

Niccolò (or Nicola) Antonio Zingarelli (* April 4, 1752 in Naples, † May 5, 1837 in Torre del Greco, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ) was a Neapolitan composer.

Life

Zingarelli received his education at the Conservatory of the Church of the Madonna di Loreto in Naples, headed Fedele Fenarolis and later the Abbate Alessandro Speranza, a pupil of Francesco Durante.

In 1779 he made ​​his debut at the Teatro San Carlo opera Montezuma, of a large number listed under increasing applause operas followed in the next few years.

In 1792 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Milan Cathedral, a position which he exchanged in 1804 with a papal Kapellmeister to Rome. Here he pulled his devotion to the Pope the displeasure of Napoleon I. to what prompted him to return in 1812 to Naples, where he served as Director of the Royal School of Music San Sebastiano and after Giovanni Paisiello's death as Kapellmeister of the cathedral until his death in a very fruitful composer and teaching activities unfolded.

Work and significance

Zingarelli is regarded as one of the last worthy offspring of the beginning of the 18th century by Alessandro Scarlatti justified Neapolitan school.

His operas, including particularly Romeo e Giulietta, excited to onset of Rossini the delight of all of Europe, and its resulting especially during the last years of church compositions be at the top of solidity among those of his contemporaries. Among his most outstanding students are the three most important Italian opera composers of the era between Rossini and Verdi: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante.