Pasquale Cafaro

Pasquale Cafaro (1779), M [AEST] RO DI MUSICA DI S [UA] R [EAL] M [AESTÀ] REGINA DI NAPOLI - "Music Master of Her Royal Majesty the Queen of Naples"

Pasquale Cafaro (born February 8, 1715 in San Pietro in Galatina , † October 23, 1787 in Naples ) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School .

Life

According to his parents' wishes, Cafaro was to become a lawyer, but from 1735 he was able to study music at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. There Leonardo Leo became his most important teacher. After his death in 1744, Cafaro succeeded him. The oratorio Il figliuolprodigo ravveduto (1745) opened the series of his great compositions - u. a. 7 operas , 6 sacred oratorios and several masses - which earned him high recognition. He rose to the direction of the Conservatorio della Pietà and received high offices from King Ferdinand and Queen Maria Carolina at the court of Naples as well as the artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo . His students included Giacomo Tritto , Francesco Bianchi , Angelo Tarchi and Honoré Langlé .

Works

Text book of the opera L'Olimpiade after Pietro Metastasio for the performance on the 18th birthday of King Ferdinand, January 12th 1769, in the Teatro di San Carlo

In Grove Music Online and Corago the following works are as follows:

Operas

La disfatta di Dario, “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Nicola Giuseppe Morbilli duca di S. Angelo a Frosolone; January 20, 1756, Naples, Teatro San Carlo ; Carnival 1757 in the Teatro Macerata; on August 24, 1757 in the Teatro della Pergola, Florence
L'incendio di Troia, “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Nicola Giuseppe Morbilli duca di S. Angelo a Frosolone; January 20, 1757, Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Ipermestra , “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; December 26th 1761, Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Arianna e Teseo, “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Pietro Pariati ; January 20, 1766, Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Creso, “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Giuseppe Gioacchino Pizzi; Carnival 1768, Turin, Teatro Regio
L'olimpiade , “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; January 12, 1769, Naples, Teatro San Carlo; 1770 in the Teatro dell'Aquila in Fermo; on December 26, 1772 again at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples
Antigono , “dramma per musica” in three acts; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 13 August 1770, Naples, Teatro San Carlo

Oratorios

Il figliuol prodigo ravveduto; February 26, 1745
Il trionfo di Davidde; 1746
La Betulia liberata ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1746
L'invenzione della croce; 1747
Isacco figura del redentore ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1763
Oratorio per il glorioso S Antonio di Padova

Cantatas

Prologo per una cantata; Solo cantata; 1764
five cantatas for the king's birthday; Naples; January 12, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1769 and 1770
Peleo, Giasone e Pallade, cantata for three voices; 1766
Ercole ed Acheloo, cantata; Libretto: Mattei; Naples, Teatro San Carlo; on the birthday of the King of Spain on January 20, 1766
La giustizia placata, cantata for the Duke of Lavino; 1769
four cantatas for the translation of the Blood of San Gennaro ; Naples, May 6, 1769, 1770, 1775 and 1781
Cantata for the Queen's birthday; Naples, August 13, 1770
Il natale d'Apollo, "festa teatrale" for the birth of the Crown Prince; Libretto: Mattei; Naples, Teatro San Carlo, January 4, 1775
La felicità della terra, cantata

Other vocal works

Several measurements and measurement sets
Several smaller sacred compositions
Sacred and secular arias, duets, solfeggi and partimenti

Web links

Raoul Meloncelli: CAFARO, Pasquale. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16: Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.
Works by and about Pasquale Cafaro in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Hanns-Bertold Dietz: Cafaro, Pasquale. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
↑ Search for operas by Pasquale Cafaro (search term in the Autore field : “Cafaro Pasquale”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .

personal data
SURNAME	Cafaro, Pasquale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Pietro in Galatina
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1787
Place of death	Naples

[grove-1] Hanns-Bertold Dietz: Cafaro, Pasquale. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[2] Search for operas by Pasquale Cafaro (search term in the Autore field : “Cafaro Pasquale”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .