부산대학교 도서관

(b Urbania, Feb 2, 1762; d Naples, April 24, 1846). Italian soprano castrato and composer. After his studies in Bologna under Lorenzo Gibelli he made his début in 1776, in Fano, in female roles and in 1781, in Treviso, as primo uomo. He sang in Naples (1787–9) and in the most important Italian theatres, in London (1785) and from 1798 to 1803 in Lisbon, where he was also manager of the S Carlos Theatre. In 1805 he was in Vienna and from 1806 to 1812 in Paris at Napoleon I’s court as singing teacher to the royal family. When he returned to Italy he was appointed singing teacher at the Bologna Conservatory and from 1825 at the Naples Royal Conservatory. His style can be placed in the general return to patetico at the end of the 18th century and his ornamentation was never immoderate. Stendhal said that no composer could have written the infinitely small nuances that formed the perfection of Crescentini’s singing in his aria ‘Ombra adorata aspetta’, inserted into Zingarelli’s ...