Nicola Fago
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Nicola Fago (26 February 1677 - February 18, 1745) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.
[edit] Biography
Born in Taranto, he studied music at the Conservatorio della Pietà de`Turchini in Naples between 1693 and 1695. Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant´Onofrio. From 1705 to 1740 he was at the Conservatorio della Pietà d`Turchini, and from 1709 to 1731 at the Tesoro di San Gennaro.
He died in Naples in 1745.
[edit] Operas
- Lo Masiello
- L'Astratto (1709)
- Il Radamista (1707)
- La Dafne
- Cassandra Indovina (1711)
- "Magnificat" ten vocals + instruments
- "Stabat Mater" 4 vocals + a quartet
- Il Faraone Sommerso
[edit] Other works
- Le fenzejune abbendurate, Commedia per musica, 1710
- La Cianna, Commedia per musica, 1711
- Lo Masillo Dramma per musica (2. Akt von Michele De Falco), 1712
- La Dafne, Favola pastorale in stile arcadio, 1714