Francesco Feo

Francesco Feo (* 1691 in Naples, † January 28, 1761 in Naples) was an Italian composer.

Life

Francesco Feo, the son of a tailor, began on September 3, 1704 its five -year training as a paying student at the "Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini " in Naples. His first teacher was the secondo maestro Andrea Basso and later the primo maestro Nicola Fago. He studied with Leonardo Leo, Giuseppe de Majo (1697-1771) and Niccolò Jommelli.

1713 his first opera, L' amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia was performed. For Carnival 1714, he presented Il martirio di Santa Caterina, an oratorio. Feo became known for his opera series Siface, re di Numidia, for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples in 1723.

After these successes, Feo teacher at the Conservatorio di Sant 'Onofrio was hired by Capuana. His students included Nicola Sabatino, Niccolò Jommelli and Gennaro Manna. In 1739 was Feo successor Francesco Durante at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo, where he remained until 1743.

Feo had not only orders from Italy but also from Madrid and Prague. His last opera, Arsace, was premiered in Turin for the reopening of the Teatro Regio in 1740. His last autograph is a tu solus sanctus Quoniam died for tenor and strings of in 1760. Feo at the age of 70 years in 1761 in Naples.

Work

Francesco Feo was primarily known for his operas, oratorios and sacred dramas. Most of these works are from the period 1720 1745. Moreover, he composed many cantatas, arias and other sacred music, as numerous fairs, Passions, a " Stabat Mater" and the Requiem " Missa defunctorum " (1718 ). To rediscover and perform performance of the St. John Passion Lorenzo Ghielmi has rendered outstanding.

Operas

  • " L' amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia " (Naples, 1713 and Innsbruck, 1716)
  • " Lucio Papirio " (Naples, 1717)
  • " La forza della virtu " (Naples, 1719)
  • " Teuzzone " (Naples, 1720 )
  • " Siface, re di Numidia " (Naples, 1723)
  • " Morano e Rosina " (1723 )
  • " Don Quixote della Mancha e Coriando lo speciale" (Rome, 1726)
  • " Ipermestra " (Rome, 1728)
  • " Arianna " (Turin, 1728)
  • "Il Tamese " (Naples, 1729 )
  • " Andromache " (Rome, 1730)
  • " L' Issipile " (Turin, 1733)
  • " Oreste " (Madrid, 1738) at the Palacio Buen Retiro
  • " Polinice " (Madrid, 1738)
  • " Arsace " (Turin, 1740)
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