Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini (1723

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– 25 October 1795) was an Italian

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and conductor who was active mostly in

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. He is best remembered today as a composer of

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s in both the Italian and Swedish languages and for his five

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. He provided the music for the first Swedish

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, '' Thetis och Pelée'', which was commissioned by

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in 1772 and was successfully performed the following year. He was married first to the

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, and then to the opera singer

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. He was the father of the

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Carlo and double bass player Adolpho Ludovico Uttini.

Works

*1743: ''

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'',

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*1748: ''Astianatte'', dramma seria,

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*1750: ''Demofoonte'', opera seria,

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*1752: ''

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'', opera seria,

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*1753: ''L'olimpiade'', opera seria,

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*1754: ''Zenobia'', opera seria, Copenhagen *1755: ''La Galatea'', opera seria,

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*1755: ''L'isola disabitata'',

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, Drottningholm *1755: ''Il rè pastore'', dramma per musica, Drottningholm *1757: ''L'eroe cinese'', opera seria, Drottningholm *1757: ''

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'', opera seria, Drottningholm *1762: ''Cythère assiégée'',

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*1764: ''Il sogno di Scipione'', dramatic serenade, Stockholm *1765: ''Soliman II, ou Les trois sultanes'', opéra comique, Stockholm *1766: ''Le gui de chène'', opéra comique, Stockholm *1766: ''Psyché'',

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, Drottningholm *1768: ''L'aveugle de Palmyre'', opéra comique, Drottningholm *1773: '' Thetis och Pelée'',

, Stockholm *1774: ''Aeglé'',

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, Stockholm *1774: '' Birger Jarl och Mechtilde'', drama with divertissements, Stockholm *1776: ''Aline, drottning uti Golconda'', opera, Stockholm

Sources

* Bertil H. van Boer, Martin Tegen. The ''

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'', edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), and 1723 births 1795 deaths Italian male classical composers Italian opera composers Male opera composers Italian expatriates in Sweden Musicians from Bologna 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub