Giacomo Orefice
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Giacomo Orefice (1865 – 1922) was an Italian composer.
He was born on 27 August 1865 in Vicenza, which was then part of the Austrian Empire, but was annexed into Italy in the following year. He studied under Alessandro Busi and Luigi Mancinelli at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and later became professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory. He died in Milan on 22 December 1922.
His works include:
Operas
- L'oasi (1885)
- Mariska (1889)
- Consuelo (1895, after George Sand's novel; the title role was created by Cesira Ferrani, who the following year created Mimí in Puccini's La bohème)
- Il gladiatore (1898)
- Chopin (1901); Orefice's most successful work in which he incorporated music by Frédéric Chopin, arranged as arias and duets; it depicts a rather fanciful interpretation of some events in Chopin's life and the operatic arrangements are not highly regarded (Scott "Record of Singing" Duckworth Press, 1978). Excerpts recorded by the tenors Amadeo Bassi, Enzo Leliva and others c1903 to 1905. At the time also performed in Polish.
- Cecilia (1902)
- Mosè (1905)
- Pane altrui (1907)
- Radda (1912, after Maxim Gorky's short story Makar Chudra)
- Il castello del sogno (not produced)
Ballet
- La Soubrette (1907)
Orchestral
- Symphony in D minor
- Sinfonia del bosco
- Anacreontiche (4 movements: Ad Artemide, A Faune, Ad Eros, A Dionisio)
Concertos
- Cello Concerto
Chamber
- Riflessi ed ombre (quintet)
- Piano Trio
- 2 violin sonatas
- cello sonata
Piano
- Preludi del mare
- Quadri di Böcklin
- Crespuscoli
- Miraggi
Songs
- various songs.
Sources
- Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954
References
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with DBI identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1865 births
- 1922 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century Italian composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century Italian composers
- Italian ballet composers
- Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni
- Italian classical composers
- Italian opera composers
- Italian male opera composers
- Academic staff of Milan Conservatory
- People from Vicenza
- 20th-century Italian male musicians
- 19th-century Italian male musicians
- All stub articles
- Italian composer stubs