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