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
- Sheet music and audio files by Francesco Feo in the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by and about Francesco Feo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Feos CV and list of works (in Italian)
- List of the stage works by Francesco Feo based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Francesco Feo (search term in the Autore field : “Feo Francesco”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
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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 |