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Italian composer and conductor
Antonio Buzzolla
Antonio Buzzolla (2 March 1815 – 20 March 1871) was an Italian composer and conductor. A native of
Adria, he studied in
Venice, and later worked with
Gaetano Donizetti and
Saverio Mercadante. He composed five operas, but was better known in his lifetime for
ariettas and
canzonettas in the
Venetian dialect. Beginning in 1855 he served as the
maestro di cappella of the
Cappella Marciana at
St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Buzzolla was one of the composers invited by
Giuseppe Verdi to contribute to the
Messa per Rossini; he composed the opening movement, the Requiem e Kyrie. He died in Venice in 1871 and was interred at
the San Michele cemetery on the
Isola di San Michele in Venice.
Compositions
Sacred works
Piano Music
- Sonata [n. 1] in mi bemolle maggiore, Op. 1
- Sonata n. 2 in sol maggiore
- Marziale in do maggiore
- Notturno in fa minore
- Due valzer
Operas
- Ferramondo (Venezia, Teatro San Benedetto, 3 December 1836)
- Mastino I° della Scala (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 31 May 1841)
- Gli Avventurieri (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 14 May 1842)
- Amleto (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 24 February 1848)
-
Elisabetta di Valois (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 16 February 1850)
- La puta onorata, (in
Venetian dialect, after
Carlo Goldoni) unfinished
Songs
- Serate a Rialto, a una voce con accompagnamento di pianoforte
- Il gondoliere, raccolta di dodici ariette veneziane
- I giardinieri, duetto in veneziano
- La campana del tramonto
- La desolada
- La farfala
- Un baso in falo
- Un ziro in gondola
- Mi e ti
- El fresco
- El canto
- Cantata funebre dei caduti di Solferino e S. Martino
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