Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (baptised 2 April 1763 – 2 December 1842)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. was born in

Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier b ...

in the Italian Alps, and was an

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and singing teacher who spent most of his career in France and England. Four of his

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

s, '' 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

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

s, a Mass, and numerous piano

sonata Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...

Principal works

Operas *''I due Svizzeri'' (

opera buffa ''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramm ...

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 ''Opera seria'' (; plural: ''opere serie''; usually called ''dramma per musica'' or ''melodramma serio'') is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to abo ...

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 Sources *Di Marco, Alessandra (1996)
"Ferrari, Iacopo (Giacomo) Gotifredo"
''

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani The ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'' ( en, Biographical Dictionary of the Italians) is a biographical dictionary published by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, started in 1925 and completed in 2020. It includes about 40,000 biograp ...

'', Vol 46. Treccani. Retrieved online 28 May 2013 . *Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo (1830). ''Aneddoti piacevoli ed interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo'' (facs. ed. R. Vettori, Rovereto 1992). * Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo (1830)
''Pleasing and Interesting Anecdotes: An Autobiography of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari''
translated from the Italian original by Stephen Thompson Moore. (Hillsdale: Pendragon Press, 2017). Series: ''Lives in Music'' no. 12. * Gehring, Franz (1900). "Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo" in

George Grove Sir George Grove (13 August 182028 May 1900) was an English engineer and writer on music, known as the founding editor of ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. Grove was trained as a civil engineer, and successful in that profession, ...

(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). ''

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'', Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 455–465. Retrieved online 28 May 2013 . *Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura (2001)
"Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo"
''

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''. Retrieved online via

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28 May 2013 . *Vettori, Romano (2012).''"''Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari e la musica per tastiera''"'', Rovereto, Accademia di Musica Antica.

External links

* *Ferrari's 1830 autobiograph
''Aneddoti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, da Rovereto''
on

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Premio Ferrari International Fortepiano Competition
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