Francesco Azopardi

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Francesco Azopardi (or Azzopardi) (b. May 5, 1748, Notabile-d. Feb. 1809, Rabat) was a Maltese composer and music theorist.

Azopardi received his musical training in Malta and during his stay from 1763 to 1774 in Naples. He worked at the Cathedral of Mdina, and from 1789 at the Cathedral of St. John in Valletta. He is known especially through his work Il Musico Prattico, which appeared in French translation by Nicholas Etienne Framéry.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Secular music

[edit] Sacred vocal music

  • La passione di Cristo (oratorio, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1802)
  • Various masses composed between 1768 and 1806
  • Various sacred works composed between 1772 and 1796
  • Songs, hymns and psalms composed between 1772 and 1807

[edit] Instrumental music

  • Overture for 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 horns, bass, and organ (1782)
  • Sinfonia for 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 violas, horn and basso continuo (1797)
  • Sinfonia for oboe obbligato, oboe, 2 violins, 2 horns and basso continuo (1799)

[edit] Treatises

  • Il musico prattico
  • Dissertazione sulla risoluzione della quinta falsa in 6/4 rivolto dell'armonia di 5/3
  • Dissertazione sulla musica greca

[edit] Further reading

  • Spiridion Vincent Buhagiar, Francesco Azopardi (1748-1809): A Maltese Classical Composer, Theorist, and Teacher, Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, 1999, Dissertation