Federico Ricci (composer)

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Composer Federico Ricci (ca.1869)

Federico Ricci (born October 22, 1809 in Naples , † December 10, 1877 in Conegliano ) was an Italian composer .

Life

Luigi Ricci's younger brother entered the Naples Conservatory at the age of nine, where he studied composition with Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , counterpoint with Pietro Raimondi and with his own brother and Bellini . In 1829 he accompanied his brother to Rome , where he made the acquaintance of the French painter Horace Vernet , who often painted him as an imposing figure. In 1841 Federico achieved success at La Scala in Milan with the opera seria Corrado d'Altamura , the plot of which is based on the same material as Verdi's early work Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio . After this success, King Karl Albert ordered two occasional cantatas from Ricci for his court, the first of which was performed in 1842 for the wedding of Crown Prince Victor Emanuel II . Ricci was now famous, made trips to Madrid and Lisbon and became known in the salons of Paris. After initially achieving success in Vienna with Il marito e l'amante (performed in the Theater am Kärntnertor in 1852 ), his next work Il paniere d'amore was a pitiful failure, after which he took a position as Kapellmeister at the imperial theater in St. Petersburg accepted. In 1869 Verdi asked him to contribute a piece for the album Piave , in support of the librettist Francesco Maria Piave , who was paralyzed by a stroke at the time. In the same year Ricci was asked by a Milan committee at Verdi's request to write a recordare for the Messa per Rossini , which was to be performed a year after Rossini's death . In 1869 Ricci moved from Russia to Paris, where he was once again popular as the author of several Opéras bouffe , including Une folie à Rome . In 1876 he retired to Conegliano in the Veneto region , where he died the following year and was buried in Trieste . His last opera Don Quixote remained unfinished.

Federico Ricci was an elegant composer and cultivated a style that was more international than regional. Some works were created in collaboration with his brother, the last one being the opera Crispino e la comare (premiered in Venice in 1850). He composed 19 operas.

Operas

  • Il colonello ( La donna colonello ) ( Jacopo Ferretti ) - Naples, Teatro del Fondo , March 14, 1835; Teamwork with Luigi Ricci
  • Monsieur de Chalumeaux (Jacopo Ferretti) - Venice, Teatro San Benedetto , June 14, 1835
  • Il disertore per amore (Jacopo Ferretti) - Naples, Teatro del Fondo, February 13, 1836
  • La prigione di Edimburgo (Gaetano Rossi after Walter Scott , The Heart of Midlothian ) - Trieste, Teatro Grande, March 13, 1838
  • Un duello sotto Richelieu (F. dall'Ongaro) - Milan, Teatro alla Scala , 17 Aug 1839
  • Luigi Rolla ( Michelangelo e Rolla ) (S. Cammarano) - Florence, Teatro della Pergola , March 30, 1841
  • Corrado d'Altamura (G. Sacchéro) - Milan, Teatro alla Scala, November 16, 1841
  • Vallombra (G. Sacchéro) - Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1842
  • Isabella de ' Medici (A. Gazzoletti) - Trieste, Teatro Grande, March 9, 1845
  • Estella di Murcia ( Francesco Maria Piave ) - Milan, Teatro alla Scala, February 21, 1846
  • L'amante di richiamo (F. dall'Ongaro) - Turin, Teatro Angennes, June 13, 1846; Teamwork with Luigi Ricci
  • Griselda (Francesco Maria Piave) - Venice, Teatro La Fenice , March 13, 1847
  • Crispino e la comare (Francesco Maria Piave) - Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, February 28, 1850; Collaboration with Luigi Ricci; translated by Nuitter / Beaumont as Le Docteur Crispin (Liège, December 17, 1866), with additional numbers by Federico Ricci
  • I due ritratti - Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, November 21, 1850
  • Il marito e l'amante ( Une fête à Venise ) (Gaetano Rossi) - Vienna, Kärntnertortheater , June 9, 1852
  • Il paniere d'amore - Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, May 25, 1853
  • Une folie à Rome ( Una follia a Roma ) (V. Wilder) - Paris, Fantaisies Parisiennes, January 30, 1869
  • Le Docteur Rose ou La Dogaresse (E. de Najac) - Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens , 10 February 1872
  • Don Chisciotte (after Miguel de Cervantes ) - 1876, unfinished

literature

  • Alexander Weatherson: Booklet text (English and Italian) for the complete recording of Crispino e la comare (live from Savona, November 1989, Bongiovanni GB 2095 / 06-2). The "distribution of work" within the joint work of the brothers Luigi and Federico Ricci is discussed in detail there.

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personal data
SURNAME Ricci, Federico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1877
Place of death Conegliano