Giacomo Orefice

Giacomo Orefice (27 August 1865 – 22 December 1922) was an Italian composer.

He was born in Vicenza. He studied under Busi and Mancinelli at the Liceo Bologna, and later became professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory. He died in Milan in 1922.

His works include:

Operas

• L'oasi (1885)
• Mariska (1889)
• Consuelo (1895, after George Sand's novel; the title role was created by Cesira Ferrani, who the following year created Mimí in Puccini's La bohème)
• Il gladiatore (1898)
• Chopin (1901; in which he incorporated music by Frédéric Chopin, arranged as arias; it depicts a rather fanciful interpretation of some events in Chopin's life and the operatic arrangements are described as "coarse")^[1]
• Cecilia (1902)
• Mosè (1905)
• Pane altrui (1907)
• Radda (1912, after Maxim Gorky's short story Makar Chudra)
• Il castello del sogno (not produced)

Ballet

• La Soubrette (1907)

Orchestral

• Symphony in D minor
• Sinfonia del bosco
• Anacreontiche (4 movements: Ad Artemide, A Faune, Ad Eros, A Dionisio)

Concertos

• Cello Concerto

Chamber

• Riflessioni ed ombre (quintet)
• Piano Trio
• 2 violin sonatas
• cello sonata

Piano

• Preludi del mare
• Quadri di Böcklin
• Crespuscoli
• Miraggi

Songs

• various songs.

Sources

• Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954

References

External links

• Free scores by Giacomo Orefice at the International Music Score Library Project

Persondata
Name	Orefice, Giacomo
Alternative names
Short description	Italian composer
Date of birth	27 August 1865
Place of birth	Vicenza, Italy
Date of death	22 December 1922
Place of death	Milan, Italy