Antonio Sacchini
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Antonio Sacchini.

Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (14 June, 1730–6 October, 1786), was an Italian opera composer.

Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where he died. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria.

Operas

• Fra Donato (Naples, 1756)
• Il giocatore (Naples, 1757)
• Olimpia tradita (Naples, 1758)
• Il copista burlato (Naples, 1759)
• Il testaccio (Rome, 1760)
• I due fratelli beffati (Naples, 1760)
• Andromeca (Naples, 1761)
• La finta contessa (Rome, 1761)
• Li due bari (Naples, 1762)
• L'amore in campo (Rome, 1762)
• Alessandro Severo (Venice, 1763)
• Alessandro nell'Indie (Venice, 1763)
• Olimpiade (Padua, 1763)
• Semiramide riconosciuta (Rome, 1764)
• Eumene (Florence, 1764)
• Il gran Cidde (Rome, 1764)
• Lucio Vero (Naples, 1764)
• Il finto pazzo per amore (Rome, 1765)
• Creso (Naples, 1765 revised London, 1774)
• La contadina in corte (Rome, 1765, London, 1782)
• L'isola d'amore (Rome, 1766), Framery's parody score
• Le contadine bizzarre (Milan, 1766)
• Artaserse (Rome, 1768)
• Nicoraste (Venice, 1769)
• Scipione in Cartagena (Munich, 1770)
• Calliroe (Ludwigsburg, 1770)
• L'eroe cinese (Munich, 1770)
• Adriano in Siria (Venice, 1770)
• Ezio (Naples, 1771)
• Armida (Milan, 1772)
• Vologeso (Parma, 1772)
• Tamerlano (London, 1773)
• Il Cid (London, 1773)
• Perseo (London, 1774)
• Nitteti (London, 1774)
• Montezuma (London, 1775)
• Didone abbandonata (London, 1775)
• Erifile (London, 1778)
• L'amore soldato (London, 1778)
• L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino (London, 1778)
• Enea e Lavinia (London, 1779)
• Mitridate (London, 1781)
• Renaud (Paris, 1783) revisione di Armida, score
• Chimène (Fontainebleau, 1783) revised version of Il gran Cidde
• Dardanus (Paris, 1784), score
• Œdipe à Colone (Versailles, 1786), score
• Arvire et Evelina (Paris, 1788) incomplete, finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey

Sources

• DiChiera, David (1992). "Sacchini, Antonio". in Stanley Sadie. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London. ISBN 0-333-73432-7. 

External links

• Free scores by Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)

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