Felice Blangini

Felice Blangini
Short Name: Felice Blangini
Full Name: Blangini, Felice, 1781-1841
Birth Year: 1781
Death Year: 1841

Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini, bron in Turin, Nov. 18, 1781, died i Paris, Dec. 18, 1841. Dramatic composer and tenor singer. He was admitted in 1789 to the choristers' school in Turin Cathedral, and made rapid progress under Ablate Ottani; when twelve years old he acted as organist to the cathedral, and had composed a motet and a Kyrie, and at fourteen he led a mass with full orchestra. His favorite instrument was the violincello. In 1799 he went to Paris and became the fashionable composer of romances and nocturnes and teacher of singing. In 1802 he was commissioned to complete Della0Maria's unfinished opera, Lafausse duègne, which was followed by others of his own, and in 1805 he was called to Munich, where several of his operas were produced. In 1806 he became Kappellmeister to the King of Bavaria, and Princess Borghese appointed him director of her music. King Jérome made him General Musik-Director at Cassell in 1809. In 1814 he returned to Paris and was appointed Surintendant de la musique du Roi. He was an indefatigable composer of operas. He wrote also some church music, including four masses with orchestra, and motets.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)

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Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini (18 November 1781 – December 1841) was an Italian musical composer.

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