Giacomo Orefice

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Giacomo Orefice (born August 27, 1865 in Vicenza ; died December 22, 1922 in Milan ) was an Italian pianist and composer .

life and work

Giacomo Orifice was a student of Alessandro Busi and Luigi Mancinelli at the Conversatory in Bologna . He also earned a doctorate in law. From 1909 on he taught composition at the G. Verdi Conversatory in Milan . In 1920 he became a critic for the newspaper Il Seculo .

In the anthology of old and new music for piano ( Ricordi ) edited by Gino Tagliapietra , his Preludio e Fuga un soggetto di Meyerbeer was included.

Works (selection)

(Tagliapietra, X)

  • 9 operas
  • Revised version of the opera Orfeo by Monteverdi
  • a symphony
  • Sinfonia del Bosco
  • Laudi francescane
  • Anacreaontiche
  • Variations for quintet
  • Trio in C minor
  • Preludi di Mare (for piano)
  • Miraggi (for piano)
  • Quadri di Böcklin (painting by B.) (for piano)
  • Crepuscoli (twilight) (for piano)
  • Preludio e Fuga (for piano, on a theme by Meyerbeer )

literature

  • Gino Tagliapietra (Ed.): Anthology of old and new music for piano. German text translated and revised by Willi Apel . Volume seventeenth, Ricordi, Milan 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagliapietra, X.
  2. ↑ Tagliapietra, p. 154 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Orefice, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1922
Place of death Milan