Luigi Arditi

Luigi Arditi ( born July 22, 1822 in Crescentino at Vercelli; † May 1, 1903 in Hove near Brighton ) was an Italian violinist and composer.

Luigi Arditi worked as a theater conductor of Italian theaters, but also in Havana, New York, Konstantin Opel and London ( 1858), Vienna and St Petersburg ( 1871-73 ). He also made its own opera company guest tours in Germany, but eventually settled permanently settled in London.

Of his compositions, initially the opera " The Spy " (1856 ) is known, but soon disappeared again from the stage, has maintained mainly the waltz song " Il bacio " (" Kußwalzer "). A real renaissance is probably not given him, but some of his salon songs have appeared in recent years on various CDs. The idea of ​​" sing " dances, though likely not come from him, but he has made ​​them so popular in the 19th century by his compositions that he has a kind father of dance operetta and the musical was so.

Arditi insisted that his dances were really " two functional", that is, they had to both sing and can dance really well.

His song " Inno Turco " ( Turkish song in Turkish türk kasidesi ) he played in 1867 specifically in honor of the state visit of Sultan Abdulaziz I. at the Crystal Palace in London.