Gennaro D'Alessandro

Pietro Fabris, Concert at the House of Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Fortrose, Naples, 1770 , Portrait of Gennaro D'Alessandro playing the harpsichord (identification proposed by Giovanni Tribuzio in 2016), oil on canvas, 1770–1771, Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery .

Gennaro D'Alessandro (* 1717 ? In Naples ; † after July 28, 1778 there ) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist .

He was a pupil of Leonardo Leo in Naples, he was Kapellmeister at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice from August 21, 1739 to May 13, 1740, then harpsichord teacher of Germain-Anne Loppin de Montmort in Dijon (from October 1, 1740 to 1749) and by Madame de La Pouplinière in Paris (1743). Back in Naples he was also a singing teacher with Madeleine-Zoé-Anne-Marguerite Seimandy (1778) and, together with Emanuele Barbella (1768), took part in several music academies in Sir William Hamilton's Villa Angelica. He met prominent figures such as Antonio Vivaldi , Carlo Goldoni , Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville , Charles de Brosses and Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona .

Web links

Sheet music and audio files by Gennaro D'Alessandro in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Giovanni Tribuzio: L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall ' Ottone per Federico Cristiano Leopoldo di Sassonia (Venezia, 1739–1740) all' Adelaide della compagnia di Pietro Mingotti (Praga, Lipsia e Amburgo, 1744) . In: Ciliberti, Galliano and Tribuzio, Giovanni (ed.): O celeste armonia di lieta sorte. Lectures, lezioni e ricerche di musicologia . Morlacchi Editore University Press, Perugia 2019, ISBN 978-88-939212-4-4 , pp. 25–140 ( academia.edu [accessed September 17, 2019]).
↑ Giovanni Tribuzio: D'Alessandro (Alexandre, Allexandro, D'Alessandri, D'Alessandria), Gennaro. Accessed December 30, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	D'Alessandro, Gennaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian composer and harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	after July 28, 1778
Place of death	Naples

[:0-1] A ^b ^c ^d Giovanni Tribuzio: L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall ' Ottone per Federico Cristiano Leopoldo di Sassonia (Venezia, 1739–1740) all' Adelaide della compagnia di Pietro Mingotti (Praga, Lipsia e Amburgo, 1744) . In: Ciliberti, Galliano and Tribuzio, Giovanni (ed.): O celeste armonia di lieta sorte. Lectures, lezioni e ricerche di musicologia . Morlacchi Editore University Press, Perugia 2019, ISBN 978-88-939212-4-4 , pp. 25–140 ( academia.edu [accessed September 17, 2019]).

[2] Giovanni Tribuzio: D'Alessandro (Alexandre, Allexandro, D'Alessandri, D'Alessandria), Gennaro. Accessed December 30, 2019 .