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.
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)