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Italian musician
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Male
Place of birth
Filadelfia, Calabria, Italy
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Naples, Italy
Age
76 years
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Biography
Paolo Serrao (11 April 1830 – 17 March 1907) was a distinguished and influential Italian teacher of musical theory and composition at Naples.
Serrao was born in Filadelfia, Calabria.As professor of composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatorio at Naples, over many years, he taught many famous Italian musicians, notably Giuseppe Martucci, Umberto Giordano, Leopoldo Mugnone, Michele Esposito, Francesco Cilea, Franco Alfano, Luigi Denza and Alessandro Longo.
He wrote five operas, of which Pergolesi was the most successful. His other compositions include both concert and sacred music.He died in Naples, aged 76.
Selected works
- Opera
- L'impostore, Opera semiseria (1850)
- Leonora dei Bardi, Opera seria (1853)
- Pergolesi, Melodramma semiserio in 3 acts (1857); libretto by Federico Quercia
- La Duchessa di Guisa, Melodramma in 4 acts (1865); libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
- Il Figliuol Prodigo, Opera in 4 acts (1868); libretto by Achille de Lauzières
- Orchestral
- Sinfonia
- Chamber music
- Andante e Fuga for string quartet
- Elegia for violin (or cello) and piano
- Minuetto for harp or piano
- Choral
- Requiem for mixed chorus and orchestra
- Gli Ortonesi in Sciò, Oratorio
Sources
- Arthur Eaglefield Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924).
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Notable Italian Music educators
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Notable Italian Conductors
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Notable Italian Pianists
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Notable Italian Music theorists
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Notable Italian Educators
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