Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (baptised 2 April 1763 – 2 December 1842)[1] was born in Rovereto in the Italian Alps, and was an Italiancomposer and singing teacher who spent most of his career in France and England. Four of his operas, I due svizzeri, II Rinaldo d'Asti, L'eroina di Raab, and Lo sbaglio fortunato premiered in the King's Theatre, London. He also composed two ballets, a Mass, and numerous piano sonatas.
II Rinaldo d'Asti (opera buffa in two acts, premiered King's Theatre, London, 16 March 1802)
L'eroina di Raab (opera seria in two acts, premiered King's Theatre, London, 8 April 1813)
Lo sbaglio fortunato (opera buffa in one act, premiered King's Theatre, London 8 May 1817)
Ballets
Borea e Zeffiro (premiered King's Theatre, London, 1805)
La dama di spirito a Napoli (premiered King's Theatre, London, 1809)
Books
Breve tratto di canto italiano, also published in English translation as Concise Treatise on Italian Singing (1818)
Studio di musica teorica pratica (1830)
Anedotti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella vita Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, da Rovereto (1830).
References
Notes
^Di Marco (1996) and Slonimsky and Kuhn (2001) give only the date of baptism. A memorial plaque in Rovereto, Ferrari's birthplace, gives his year of birth as 1763 (see Lapide Storiche Rovereto, Gotifredo Ferrari). Two older sources, Gehring (1900) p. 513 and Saint-Foix (1939) p. 455, give the unlikely year of birth as 1759.
Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo (1830). Aneddoti piacevoli ed interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo (facs. ed. R. Vettori, Rovereto 1992).
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