Fedele Fenaroli

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Fedele Fenaroli

Fedele Fenaroli (born April 25, 1730 in Lanciano , † January 1, 1818 in Naples ) was an Italian composer , music teacher and a representative of the so-called Neapolitan School .

Life

The musical basics were taught to Fedele Fenaroli by his father, who was Kapellmeister at the Church of S. Maria del Ponte in Lanciano. In 1744 he was accepted at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples. His main teachers were Francesco Durante and Pietro Antonio Gallo , who taught him composition, counterpoint, organ and singing. His first known work was a Dixit Dominus from 1751. From 1755 Fenaroli was a composition teacher at the Conservatorio . His first opera I due sediarii was performed in Naples in the spring of 1759. After the death of Pietro Antonio Gallo, Fenaroli took over the management of the Conservatorio in November 1777, which in 1797 was merged with the Conservatorio Sant'Onofrio a Capuana after a restructuring . The Nobile Accademia di Musica delle Signore Dame e de Signori Cavalieri , founded in 1777, appointed Fenaroli as their musical director. After King Joseph Bonaparte took office , he dissolved the Conservatorii and founded the Real Collegio di Musica as the only musical training facility in Naples . After that, Fenaroli retained the management of the new institution on an equal footing with Giovanni Paisiello and Giacomo Tritto , in which he taught until the end of 1817.

His successful students include Domenico Cimarosa , Nicola Antonio Zingarelli , Silvestro Palma , Francesco Ruggi , Salvatore Fighera , Luigi Mosca , Vincenzo Lavigna , Carlo Coccia , Michele Carafa , Giacomo Cordella , Giuseppe Nicolini , Nicola Manfroce , Pietro Antonio Coppola , Traugott Maximilian Eberwein , Saverio Mercadante , Carlo Conti and Giuseppe Liberali .

Fenaroli composed mainly church music and works for organ or harpsichord. His fame is based more on his didactic work and the success of some of his textbooks, which were distributed in large editions beyond Italy.

The theater in Fenaroli's birthplace, Lanciano, is named after him.

Textbooks

  • Regole musicali per i principianti di harpsichord . Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola, Naples 1775. Ed. By Emanuele Imbimbo in: Fenaroli. Cours complet d'Harmonie et de Haute Composition . Paris undated [1814] ( digitized version ).
  • Intavolatura per harpsichord (1793)
  • Partimenti ossia Basso numerato . Edited by Emanuele Imbimbo in: Fenaroli. Cours complet d'Harmonie et de Haute Composition . Paris undated [1814] ( digitized version ).
  • Studio del contrappunto (Rome, around 1800)
  • Ristretto de Principi Musicali perservire d'introduzione a Partimenti
  • Solfeggi per soprano
  • Scale e cadenze nelle 3 posizioni

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonella Cerami:  Fenaroli, Fedele. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 46:  Feducci-Ferrerio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1996.
  2. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique. 2nd Edition. Volume 3. Firmin Didot, Paris 1862, pp. 205 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Website of the Teatro Comunale Fedele Fenaroli
personal data
SURNAME Fenaroli, Fedele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanciano
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1818
Place of death Naples