Giovanni Pacini c. 1835 (original etching by G. Gazzini)
Giovanni Pacini (11 February 1796 – 6 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, living in Catania when the composer was born.
His first 25 or so operas were written when Gioachino Rossini dominated the Italian operatic stage. But Pacini's operas were "rather superficial", a fact which, later, he candidly admitted in his Memoirs.[1] For some years he held the post of "director of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples."[1] Later, retiring to Viareggio to found a school of music, Pacini took time to assess the state of opera in Italy and, during a five-year period during which he stopped composing, laid out his ideas in his Memoirs. Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy."[1] Pacini's work is largely forgotten today, although some recordings do exist.
GiovanniPacini (11 February 1796 – 6 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of...
This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer GiovanniPacini (1796–1867). La chiarina (Carnival (1815–1816 San Moisè, Venice) [probable...
writers, including the composers Vincenzo Bellini and GiovanniPacini, and the writers Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana, Federico De Roberto and Nino Martoglio...
Pacini may refer to the following persons: Piero Pacini da Pescia (flourished 1495-1514), Italian publisher GiovanniPacini, a 19th-century Italian composer...
years he taught singing at the conservatory founded by his son, GiovanniPacini. Pacini was born in Popiglio di Piteglio, a hamlet in the hills outside...
(1826) Giovanni Quaquerini (1842) Bianca e Falliero or Il consiglio dei tre Gioachino Rossini (1819) Vallace or L'eroe scozzese GiovanniPacini (1820)...
Sicily's composers vary from Vincenzo Bellini, Sigismondo d'India, GiovanniPacini and Alessandro Scarlatti, to contemporary composers such as Salvatore...
Bondelmonte (GiovanniPacini) 1845: Alzira (Giuseppe Verdi) 1845: Il vascello de Gama (Saverio Mercadante) 1845: Stella di Napoli (GiovanniPacini) 1846: Orazi...
1978 to the memory of the opera composer GiovanniPacini, and has a marble bust of the composer by Giovanni Dupré, as well as two headless statues of...
the end of June 1829 with no contract for another opera in sight. GiovanniPacini, another Catanese composer, was still in Milan after the well-received...
was an occasion of public mourning, at which the then-famed composer GiovanniPacini conducted a Requiem. With the Puccini family having occupied the position...
farsa by GiovanniPacini set to a libretto attributed to Gaetano Barbieri, 1832 Don Giovanni, o sia Il convitato di pietra, Don Giovanni Tenorio, opera...
Mayr, a composer and Donizetti's teacher, as well as the prolific GiovanniPacini. Born in Verona, Rossi was writing religious verse by the time that...
casa del poeta, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca, 1997. U. Sereni, Giovanni Pascoli nella Valle del Bello e del Buono, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca...
well-informed popular European culture in the early 19th century: In 1817 GiovanniPacini brought druids to the stage in Trieste with an opera to a libretto...
1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during...
nelle Indie (dramma per musica; music by GiovanniPacini, 1824) Anazilia (melodramma; music by GiovanniPacini, 1825) Malvina (music by Michele Costa,...
working with many of the significant composers of his day, including GiovanniPacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci...
Michetti, painter and ultracentenarian Mario Monicelli, film director GiovanniPacini (1796–1867), composer, lived in Viareggio André Puccinelli, governor...
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