Valentino Fioravanti

Valentino Fioravanti ( born September 11, 1764 in Rome, † June 16, 1837 in Capua ) was an Italian composer.

Life and work

Valentino Fioravanti made ​​his musical studies partly in Rome under Giuseppe Jannacconi, partly to Naples below and next to Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Paisiello and Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, was in 1800 director of the theater in Lisbon, in 1807 went to Paris and then from there to Naples and was 1816 appointed by the Pope as the successor of Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli as Kapellmeister of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica. To 1805 he began to compose operas. His numerous comic operas were in their time willingly belonged works. Of his 77 operas, 36 Naples, 16 for Rome, nine of Lisbon, two composed for Paris; the other for Venice, Milan, Turin and Florence. His music is soft, melodious, rounded, winning by grace and serene mood, but of little depth. In his later years he wrote only sacred music.

He died on June 16, 1837 on a trip to his son Vincenzo Fioravanti ( 1799-1877 ), who was also a composer of operas, of a stroke in Capua.

Works

• Il furbo contr'il furbo
• Adelaide e Comingio
• Il fabbro Parigino
• I virtuosi ambulanti
• I 'm a traveler ridicoli
• Le cantatrici villane, ( The village singers ), from 1799, was reportedly the favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte. A popular repertoire piece on the German stage; mentioned, for example in 1982 at the opera stages of Kiel and 2004 at the Theater Erfurt from the School of Music Weimar, directed by Lutz black.