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Giacomo Orefice (Composer)

Born: 27th August 1865, Vincenza, Italy

Died: 22nd December 1929, Milan, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Giacomo Orefice was an Italian composer.

He was born in Vicenza. He studied under Alessandro Busi and Luigi Mancinelli at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and later became professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory. He died in Milan in 1922.

His works include:

Operas

L'oasi (1885) Mariska (1889) Consuelo (1895, after George Sand's novel; the title role was created by Cesira Ferrani, who the following year created Mimí in Puccini's La bohème) Il gladiatore (1898) Chopin (1901); Orefice's most successful work in which he incorporated music by Frédéric Chopin, arranged as arias and duets; it depicts a rather fanciful interpretation of some events in Chopin's life and the operatic arrangements are not highly regarded (Scott "Record of Singing" Duckworth Press, 1978).

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