Antonio Smareglia
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Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 - 15 April 1929) was an Istrian opera composer.
[edit] Life
Antonio Smareglia was born in the town of Pula (now in Croatia) in 1854, in a house in Via Nettuno which still stands and in which there is now a small museum of his life and work. He was the sixth but first surviving child of an Italian father — Francesco Smareglia from Vodnjan (Dignano) — and a Croatian mother — Giulia Stiglich from Ičići. The composer chose to set his most famous opera, Nozze Istriane, in his father's village.
Smareglia married Maria Jetti Polla, and they had five children.
He became blind at the age of 46. Various people took dictation from him including his sons Ariberto and Mario, and students and friends including Primo dalla Zonca, Gastone Zuccoli, and Vito Levi.
He died in Grado in 1929.
[edit] Operas and other works
- Caccia lontana (1879) — a one-act dramatic sketch, a student work
- Preziosa, dramma lirico (1879)
- Bianca de Cervia, dramma lirico (1882)
- Re Nala, melodramma (1887)
- Il Vasallo di Szigeth, dramma lirico (1891)
- Cornill Schut, (1893)
- Nozze Istriane (1895).
- Falena (1897)
- Oceana (1903)
- Abisso (1914)
[edit] References
- Antonio Smareglia (1854-1929) Sveučilišna knjižnica u Puli, 2004 / Biblioteca Universitaria di Pola, 2004
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