Giuseppe Mosca (1772 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

– 1839 in Messina) was an Italian opera composer, the older brother of

Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca (1775 – 30 November 1824) was Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of which were originally for theatres in Naples, but played throughout Italy in their day. Biog ...

, also an opera composer. He is mainly remembered as the composer who said that Rossini copied in '' La pietra del paragone'' the "crescendo" from his opera ''I pretendenti delusi''.''D'une scène à l'autre: l'opéra italien en Europe'' Volume 2 : La ... – Page 222 Damien Colas, Alessandro Di Profio – 2009 the only comic opera Rossini prepared for Naples, many of whose verses are incorporated without change from Gaetano Rossi's ''Avviso al pubblico'', written for Giuseppe Mosca in 1814 (both texts are ultimately derived from the 1763 play)

Works

* aria "Mentre guardo, oh Dio! me stessa" from the opera ''Le bestie in uomini''

Ann Hallenberg Ann Hallenberg (born 17 March 1967) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. She has a busy career on the stage and concert platform around Europe embracing roles by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, and Purcell. Hallenberg studied at the ...

Fabio Biondi Fabio Biondi (born 15 March 1961) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He is a specialist in Baroque and early music. Biography Born in Palermo, Sicily, Biondi had a late start, having never even held a violin till age 11, but by the follo ...

2012

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