Giacomo Orefice
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Giacomo Orefice was an Italian
Italy
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 composer.

He was born in Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

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

His works include:

Operas
  • L'oasi (1885)
  • Mariska (1889)
  • Consuelo (1895, after George Sand
    George Sand
    Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...

    's novel
    Consuelo (novel)
    Consuelo is a novel by George Sand, first published serially in 1842-1843 in La Revue indépendante, a periodical founded in 1841 by Sand, Pierre Leroux and Louis Viardot. According to the Nuttall Encyclopædia, it is "[Sand's] masterpiece; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over...

    ; the title role was created by Cesira Ferrani
    Cesira Ferrani
    Cesira Ferrani was an Italian operatic soprano who is best known for debuting two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì in the original 1896 production of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème and the title role in Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its 1893 world premiere...

    , who the following year created Mimí in Puccini
    Giacomo Puccini
    Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...

    's La bohème
    La bohème
    La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...

    )
  • Il gladiatore (1898)
  • Chopin (1901; in which he incorporated music by Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

    , arranged as arias; it depicts a rather fanciful interpretation of some events in Chopin's life and the operatic arrangements are described as "coarse")
  • Cecilia (1902)
  • Mosè (1905)
  • Pane altrui (1907)
  • Radda (1912, after Maxim Gorky
    Maxim Gorky
    Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...

    '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
    Arnold Böcklin
    Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.-Life and art:He was born at Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin , was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade. His mother, Ursula Lippe, was a native of the same city...

  • Crespuscoli
  • Miraggi


Songs
  • various songs.

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