Tommaso Giordani

Tommaso Giordani ( Giordano ) (* around 1730 in Naples, † February 23, 1806 in Dublin) was an Italian composer.

Life

Tommaso Giordani was born into a family of musicians. His father was Giuseppe Giordani (also Giordano; * 1695 Naples, † after 1762, probably in London, - and not Carmine Giordani ). A younger brother was the opera composer Giuseppe Giordani, called " Giordanello ".

Tommaso Giordani was trained in Naples and in 1753 moved with his family to London. After three years he returned to the Royal Opera House out his first comic operas. In 1762 he joined the King's Theatre in London's Haymarket as a singer, and then worked in London and Dublin as an opera singer and music teacher. In 1783 he founded in Dublin an opera company, which was unsuccessful. He stopped, interrupted by a few trips to London, as a composer, singer, voice teacher, conductor and teacher continued until his death in Dublin.

Works

In addition to more than 20 operas for London and Dublin Tommaso Giordani wrote numerous pieces for piano, sonatas for violin, guitar or flute and piano trios for violin, flute and continuo Quartets (mostly string quartets, some with flute or piano), 3 harpsichord Quintets, piano concertos, flute concerts, practice pieces for pianoforte, a High Mass, a Te Deum, an oratorio and songs. His style continued the of Johann Christian Bach continued.