Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari

Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari

Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (baptised 2 April 1763 – 2 December 1842)^[1] was an Italian composer and singing teacher who spent most of his career in France and England. Four of his operas, I due svizzeri, II Rinaldo d'Asti, L'eroina di Raab, and Lo sbaglio fortunato premiered in the King's Theatre, London. He also composed two ballets, a Mass, and numerous piano sonatas.

Principle works

Operas

• I due Svizzeri (opera buffa in one act, premiered King's Theatre, London, 14 May 1799)
• II Rinaldo d'Asti (opera buffa in two acts, premiered King's Theatre, London, 16 March 1802)
• L'eroina di Raab (opera seria in two acts, premiered King's Theatre, London, 8 April 1813)
• Lo sbaglio fortunato (opera buffa in one act, premiered King's Theatre, London 8 May 1817)

Ballets

• Borea e Zeffiro (premiered King's Theatre, London, 1805)
• La dama di spirito a Napoli (premiered King's Theatre, London, 1809)

Books

• Breve tratto di canto italiano, also published in English translation as Concise Treatise on Italian Singing (1818)
• Studio di musica teorica pratica (1830)
• Anedotti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella vita Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, da Rovereto (1830).

References

Notes

1. Di Marco (1996) and Slonimsky and Kuhn (2001) give only the date of baptism. A memorial plaque in Rovereto, Ferrari's birthplace, gives his year of birth as 1763 (see Lapide Storiche Rovereto, Gotifredo Ferrari). Two older sources, Gehring (1900) p. 513 and Saint-Foix (1939) p. 455, give the unlikely year of birth as 1759.

Sources

• Di Marco, Alessandra (1996). "Ferrari, Iacopo (Giacomo) Gotifredo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol 46. Treccani. Retrieved online 28 May 2013 (Italian).
• Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo (1830). "Aneddoti piacevoli ed interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo" (facs. ed. R. Vettori, Rovereto 1992).
• Gehring, Franz (1900). "Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo" in George Grove (ed.) A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 1, p. 513. Macmillan
• Saint-Foix, Georges (1939). "A Musical Traveler: Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1759-1842)" (translated by Arthur Mendel). The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 455–465. Retrieved online 28 May 2013 (subscription required).
• Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura (2001). "Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Retrieved online via HighBeam Research 28 May 2013 (subscription required).
• Vettori, Romano (2012)."Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari e la musica per tastiera", Rovereto, Accademia di Musica Antica.

External links

• Public domain scores by Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari on the International Music Score Library Project
• Ferrari's 1830 autobiography Aneddoti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, da Rovereto on Archive.org (Italian)
• Premio Ferrari International Fortepiano Competition