Giuseppe Mosca
Giuseppe Mosca (Naples, 1772 - Messina, 1839) was an Italian opera composer, the older brother of Luigi Mosca, also an opera composer.[1] He is mainly remembered as the original composer who used the libretto for L'Italiana in Algeri which later became famous in Rossini's setting.[2]
Works
- aria "Mentre guardo, oh Dio! me stessa" from the opera Le bestie in uomini Ann Hallenberg, Fabio Biondi 2012
References
- ↑ Operisti minori dell'800 italiano - Page 99 Corrado Ambìveri - 1998 "GIUSEPPE MOSCA Napoli 1772 - Messina 1839 Compì gli studi musicali nel conservatorio di S. Maria di Loreto in Napoli, avendo il Ir nardi come maestro di contrappunto e composizione. A soli diciotto anni fece il suo esordio come operista "
- ↑ D'une scène à l'autre : l'opéra italien en Europe Volume 2 : La ... - Page 222 Damien Colas, Alessandro Di Profio - 2009 the only comic opera Rossini prepared for Naples, many of whose verses are incorporated without change from Gaetano Rossi's Avviso al pubblico, written for Giuseppe Mosca in 1814 (both texts are ultimately derived from the 1763 play)