Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (1698 – c.1765) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

who is best known for 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 ...

Biography

He was born at

Bitonto Bitonto (; nap, label= Bitontino, Vetònde) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari (Apulia region), Italy. It lies to the west of Bari. It is nicknamed the "City of Olives", due to the numerous olive groves surrounding the cit ...

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Province of Bari The Province of Bari ( it, provincia di Bari, nap, pruvincia 'e Bari, nap, label= Barese, provinge de Bare) was a province in the region of Apulia, Italy. Its capital was the city of Bari. It has an area of , and a total population of 1,594,10 ...

) in the

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region and was a pupil of Giovanni Veneziano and Giuliano Perugino at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto. In 1738 he collaborated with

Leonardo Leo Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi) in ...

and others in the hasty production of ''Demetrio''; in the autumn of the same year he produced a comic opera, ''L'inganno per inganno'', the first of a long series of comic operas, the success of which won him the name of "il Dio dell'opera buffa". He went to

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

, probably in 1747, as a teacher of counterpoint; as an opera composer he is last heard of in 1760, and is supposed to have died about 1763 or 1765. Logroscino has been credited with the invention of the concerted operatic finale, but as far as can be seen from the score of ''Governatore'' and the few remaining fragments of other operas, his finales show no advance upon those of Leo. As a musical humorist, he has been classed with

Gioacchino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Logroscino, Nicola 1698 births 1760s deaths Musicians from Naples People from Bitonto Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Pupils of Alessandro Scarlatti Italian opera composers Male opera composers 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians 17th-century male musicians