Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano ( Italian: Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano ; November 28, 1787 , Naples - July 26, 1872 , Paris ) - Italian - French composer and music teacher.
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Biography
Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was born on November 28, 1787 in Naples. Came from an old princely family. He composed the first opera Il Fantasma when he was 15 years old (in 1805 it was staged in the home theater of the composer's uncle, Prince Karamaniko).
In 1806, Carafa went to study in Paris, where he took composition lessons from Luigi Cherubini and piano from Friedrich Kalkbrenner . However, at the request of his father, who did not approve of his son’s musical career, he had to join the hussar regiment as a lieutenant; Under the leadership of Marshal Murat Caraf, he fought first in Italy, then in Russia, was awarded Napoleon I , and after the restoration of power in the Neapolitan kingdom, the Bourbons were dismissed from the army with confiscation of property and had the opportunity to complete a musical education and return to creativity.
He studied counterpoint with Fedele Fenaroli . After writing and staging several operas in Naples, Carafa again went to Paris in 1821 , where he was immediately successful with the opera Joan of Arc, and then with Sleeping Beauty ( French: La belle au bois dormant ; 1825 ) and Mazaniello ( 1827 ); the latter was particularly successful, having sustained 136 performances in the Opera comedian . Together with A. Girovets, he composed music for the ballet Natalie, or the Swiss Thrush ( 1832 ), staged by the Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni for his daughter, the famous Italian ballerina Maria Taglioni . However, in the future, Carafa could not stand the contest for popularity with Rossini and Donizetti and turned to a greater extent to pedagogical activity.
In 1834 he received French citizenship, in 1838 he headed the school of military musicians (in the same year his last opera Teresa was staged), and in 1840 - 1858 . He was a professor of composition and counterpoint at the Paris Conservatory .
Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano died July 26, 1872 in the city of Paris.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116451793 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Solovyov N.F. Carafa de Colobrano, Mikhail // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.