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Alberto Franchetti

Alberto Franchetti (born 18 September 1860, Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
; died 4 August 1942, Viareggio

Viareggio

Viareggio is a city located in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 63,000 it is the main centre of the northern Tuscan Riviera known as Versilia, and the second largest city within the Province of Lucca....
) was an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. A nobleman of independent means, he studied first in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
, then in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
under Draeseke

Felix Draeseke

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music....
, and finally at the Munich

Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
Conservatory under Rheinberger

Josef Rheinberger

Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer.When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year....
. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera Asrael. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and Meyerbeer with Italian verismo

Verismo

Verismo was an Italian literary and, by extension, operatic movement which peaked between approximately 1875 and the early 1900s. It was mainly inspired by Naturalism ....
. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the "Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
of modern Italy."

"Egli non ha forse l’indole portata dai drammi passionali, ma per quei soggetti, ove l’elemento fantastico, romantico ed epico domandano al sinfonismo ed ai grandiosi quadri corali, il loro poderoso ausilio.

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Alberto Franchetti (born 18 September 1860, Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
; died 4 August 1942, Viareggio
Viareggio

Viareggio is a city located in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 63,000 it is the main centre of the northern Tuscan Riviera known as Versilia, and the second largest city within the Province of Lucca....
) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. A nobleman of independent means, he studied first in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
, then in Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
under Draeseke
Felix Draeseke

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music....
, and finally at the Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
Conservatory under Rheinberger
Josef Rheinberger

Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer.When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year....
. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera Asrael. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and Meyerbeer with Italian verismo
Verismo

Verismo was an Italian literary and, by extension, operatic movement which peaked between approximately 1875 and the early 1900s. It was mainly inspired by Naturalism ....
. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the "Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
of modern Italy."

"Egli non ha forse l’indole portata dai drammi passionali, ma per quei soggetti, ove l’elemento fantastico, romantico ed epico domandano al sinfonismo ed ai grandiosi quadri corali, il loro poderoso ausilio. Alberto Franchetti sa che a questo riguardo non può avere rivali..."G.B. Nappi - (da "Orfeo", anno VI, n.3, 1915)

Grove
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopaedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, it is the largest single reference work on Western music....
calls Cristoforo Colombo
Cristoforo Colombo (opera)

Cristoforo Colombo is an opera in four acts and an epilogue by Alberto Franchetti to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Illica. It was written in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' Christopher_Columbus#First_voyage....
(1892) Franchetti's best work. However, his most popular opera was Germania (1902). It clung to the general operatic repertoire until the First World War, was performed worldwide, and Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an italians tenor. Caruso was also one of the most significant and renowned singers in any genre in both the 19th and 20th Centuries, and one of the most important pioneers of recorded music....
held it high regard, recording various arias. It then lapsed into obscurity.

Recent revivals and recordings of Cristoforo Colombo and Germania (Berlin Oper 2006/7) show his work to be of genuine quality with a fine ability in orchestration and use of the chorus, symphonic in style. These traits, along with a tendency for two-dimensional characters, were recognised early.

He also wrote a Symphony in E minor.
Performed Operatic Works

Asrael
Asrael

Asrael is a leggenda or opera in four acts by composer Alberto Franchetti and librettist Ferdinando Fontana. The story of the opera, based on German fairy tale and folklore, depicts the conflict between the spirit of evil and the incarnation of Christian love ....
(1888)
Cristoforo Colombo
Cristoforo Colombo (opera)

Cristoforo Colombo is an opera in four acts and an epilogue by Alberto Franchetti to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Illica. It was written in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' Christopher_Columbus#First_voyage....
(1892)
Fior d’Alpe (1894)
Il signor di Pourceaugnac (1897)
Germania (includes the tenor aria Studenti! Udite) (1902)
La figlia di Iorio
La figlia di Iorio

La figlia di Iorio , sometimes written as La figlia di Jorio, is an Opera in three acts by Alberto Franchetti to a libretto by Gabriele D'Annunzio....
(1906)
Notte di Legenda (1915)
Giove a Pompei (1921) Joint composition with Umberto Giordano.
Glauco (1922)
Fiori del Brabante (1930)

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