Fischietti, Domenico

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Fischietti, Domenico

Fischietti, Domenico, Italian composer; b. Naples, c. 1725; d. probably in Salzburg, c. 1810. He was the son of the organist, teacher, and composer Giovanni Fischietti (1692–1743). He was a student at the S. Onofrio Cons, in Naples of Leo and Durante. After beginning his career as an opera composer in Naples, he went to Venice to collaborate with Goldoni on 4 highly successful comic operas: Lo speziale (Carnival 1754; Act 1 by V. Pallavicini), La ritornata di Londra (Feb. 1756), II mercato di Malmantile (Dec. 26, 1757), and // Signor dottore (1758). He then was active in Prague and Dresden, serving as court Kapellmeister in the latter city (1765–72). Upon settling in Salzburg, he was Kapellmeister to the Arch-bishop (1772–75) and a teacher at the Institut der Domsangerknaben (1779–83). In all, he wrote some 20 operas, the oratorio La morte d’Abele (1767), a Magnificat, masses, Psalms, and motets.

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