Petronio Franceschini (

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, January 9, 1651 –

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

, December 4, 1680) was a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composer from Italy.

Biography

Franceschini studied under

Giacomo Antonio Perti Giacomo Antonio Perti (6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was ''Maestro di Cappella'' for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Bat ...

and became also the main cellist in

Basilica di San Petronio The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petroniu ...

. He produced mainly church music and he is credited with an innovative use of trumpet and voices. In addition, he wrote four

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. He died in

before he had the chance to finish a fifth, ''Dionisio'', which was completed by a contemporary of his, Giovanni Domenico Partenio. Today Franceschini's most often performed composition (conceived with San Petronio in mind) is his ''Sonata in D'' for two trumpets and strings; this work has been recorded several times since the 1960s.

Works

*''Le gare di Sdegno, d'Amore e di Gelosia'' *''Oronte de Menfi'' *''Arsinoe'' *''Apollo in Tessaglia'' *''Dioniso ovvero La virtù trionfante del vitio'' *''Sonata for 2 Trumpets in D''

External links

Petronio Franceschini
at naxos.com * 1651 births 1680 deaths 17th-century Italian composers Italian Baroque composers Italian opera composers Italian male classical composers Male opera composers Musicians from Bologna 17th-century male musicians {{italy-composer-stub