Francesco Feo

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Francesco Feo

Francesco Antonio Feo (* 1691 in Naples ; † January 28, 1761 there ) was an Italian composer .

Life

Francesco Feo, the son of a tailor, began his five-year training as a paying student at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples on September 3, 1704 . His first teacher was the secondo maestro Andrea Basso and later the primo maestro Nicola Fago . He studied together with Leonardo Leo , Giuseppe de Majo and Niccolò Jommelli .

In 1713 his first opera, L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia was performed. For the carnival in 1714 he presented Il martirio di Santa Caterina , an oratorio . Feo became known with his opera Siface for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples in 1723.

After these successes, Feo became a teacher at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana . His students included Nicola Sabatino , Niccolò Jommelli and Gennaro Manna . In 1739 Feo succeeded Francesco Durantes at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo , where he stayed until 1743.

Feo had orders not only from Italy, but also from Madrid and Prague . His last opera, Arsace , premiered in Turin for the reopening of the Teatro Regio in 1740. His last autograph is a Quoniam tu solus sanctus for tenor and strings from 1760. Feo died at the age of 70 in 1761 in Naples.

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Francesco Feo was best known for his operas , oratorios and sacred dramas. Most of these works date from between 1720 and 1745. He also composed numerous cantatas , arias and other sacred music, such as numerous masses , passion music , a Stabat Mater and the Requiem Missa defunctorum (1718). The rediscovery and -performance the Johannes Passion has Lorenzo Ghielmi rendered outstanding.

Operas

  • Dalinda e Balbo , opera
  • L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia ; Libretto: Domenico Lalli ; WP : Naples, January 18, 1713; revised as Radamisto : Innsbruck 1716
  • Lucio Papirio , dramma per musica; Libretto: Antonio Salvi ; WP: Naples, December 11, 1717; with Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
  • La forza della virtù , commedia per musica; Libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio ; WP: Naples, January 22nd, 1719
  • Teuzzone , dramma; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno ; WP: Naples, January 20, 1720
  • Siface , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; Premiere: Naples, May 13th 1723
  • Don Chisciotte della Mancha e Coriando lo speciale , intermezzi; WP: Rome 1726
  • Ipermestra , dramma per musica; Libretto: Antonio Salvi; WP: Rome, Carnival 1728
  • Arianna , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Pariati ; WP: Turin, Carnival 1728
  • Tamese ( Arsilda regina del Ponto ), dramma per musica; Libretto: Domenico Lalli; WP: Naples, winter 1729
  • Il vedovo , intermezzo; WP: Naples, winter 1729
  • Andromaca , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; WP: Rome, February 5th, 1730
  • L'Issipile , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; WP: Turin 1733
  • Oreste ; Premiere: Madrid 1738 in the Palacio Buèn Retiro
  • Polinice ; Premiere: Madrid 1738
  • Arsace , dramma per musica; Libretto: Antonio Salvi; WP: Turin, December 26th 1740

Oratorios

  • Il martirio di S. Caterina (1714)
  • San Giovanni (1715)
  • 4 oratorios Per i Defunti (1723, 1725, 1728, 1731)
  • Il Genera umano in Catena liberato da nostra signora (1731)
  • S. Francesci di Sales (1734)
  • Gesà adorato dai tre magi (with Domenico Sarro , Genoa, 1737)
  • The distruzione dell'esertico dei cananei con la morte di Sisara (1739)
  • Tobias (1741)
  • La Ruth (Libretto by Giuseppe Lupis, Rome, 1743)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenzo Ghielmi: The Passio secundum Joannem by Francesco Feo: A newly discovered masterpiece of the Italian Baroque. Program of the performance on March 29, 2011 in Basel, pp. 4–5 (PDF file, 0.7 MB) ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Feo, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feo, Francesco Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1761
Place of death Naples