Giuseppe Nicolini (1762-1842) - Violin concerto in Sib maggiore

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Composer: Giuseppe Nicolini (1762-1842)
Work: Violin concerto in Sib maggiore
Performers: Francеsco de Angеlis (violino); Orchestra del Conservatorio G. Nicolini di Piacеnza; Fabriziο Dοrsi

Painting: William James Muller (1812-1845) - Florence, a view of the city and the river Arno from San Miniato

Further info: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-nicolini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
Listen free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBrT-r8DUA0

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Giuseppe Nicolini [Niccolini]
(Piacenza, 29 January 1762 - Piacenza, 18 December 1842)

Italian composer. The sixth of 14 brothers, he first studied music with his father, Omobono Nicolini, organist and maestro di cappella in Piacenza, and singing with Filippo Macedone. With financial help from Duke Gian Girolamo Sforza Fogliani of Piacenza he studied composition for seven years, probably from 1778 to 1784, at the Conservatorio di S Onofrio in Naples, where his teachers were Insanguine and later Cimarosa. After composing the oratorio Daniele nel lago dei leoni (1781, Naples) and the azione sacra Giuditta (1785, Venice), he made his opera début with La famiglia stravagante (1793, Parma). This first success was followed by at least 45 works, produced at the rapid pace imposed by the market. As one of the last representatives of the old Neapolitan school, which by 1800 was in decline and was soon to be engulfed in a process of national unification of musical taste (to which the work of Rossini was to give the strongest impetus), Nicolini imitated its models with ability but reduced them to stereotyped formulae. Nevertheless, for about 20 years, principally between 1811 and 1820, he could count on an enormous public, even outside Italy, who exalted him to the level of the most celebrated masters. In 1807 in Rome, his Traiano in Dacia, starring the castrato Velluti, defeated Cimarosa’s much-loved classic Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi in a contest for popular favour. His operas were performed by the best virtuosos of the time, including (besides Velluti) Bonoldi, Pasta, Pisaroni and the young Catalani, who sang in I baccanali di Roma at La Scala in 1801. In 1816, when the administration of the Teatro Nuovo (thereafter the Teatro Comunale) passed from the Duchess Maria Luisa to the municipality of Piacenza, he was appointed for life to the service of that theatre by a special decree from the duchess, and from that time he wrote little for the stage. In 1819 he was elected maestro di cappella of the cathedral. In the meantime his fame had become obscured by that of Rossini, although in his final years he assimilated some of the features of Rossini’s style. He abandoned the theatre completely in 1831 to devote himself to sacred music. During his last years, lack of means obliged him to serve in some of the choirs of his city; he died in poverty and forgotten. In 1914 Piacenza named its Liceo Musicale after him. #ClassicalMusic