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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1PAVESI
3In 1799 he established permanent concerts, the technical perfection of which contributed much to the advancement of music in Belgium. Works—Operas; La maisonette dans les bois, L’auteur malgré lui, Léontine et Fonrose, all given at Brussels, about 1791–1800; Concerto for violin and orchestra; do. for horn and orchestra; 3 quartets for strings; 6 duos for violins; 3 polonaises for soprano and orchestra; L’amitié, duet for soprano and tenor, with orchestra. In manuscript: Symphonies, concertos for violin, masses, etc.—Fétis; Mendel; Riemann.
5PAVESI, STEFANO, born at Casaletto Vaprio, near Cremona, Jan. 22, 1779, died at Crema, July 28, 1850. Dramatic composer; studied at the Conservatorio dei Turchini, Naples, until the Revolution of 1799, when he was imprisoned and finally sent to Marseilles; thence he went to Dijon and joined a regimental band, with which he returned to Italy for the Marengo campaign. He seized the opportunity of returning to Venice, where he began in 1802 writing for the theatre, and was soon engaged as composer by all the leading theatres in Italy. He wrote most of his operas for Venice, where he lived chiefly, although he was appointed maestro di cappella at Cremona in 1818, to succeed Gazzaniga. Works: L’avvertimento ai gelosi, L’anonimo, Venice, 1803; I castelli in aria, Verona, 1804; L’accortezza materna, L’amor contrastato, Venice, 1804; L’amore prodotto dall’odio, Padua, 1804; Fingallo e Comala, Amare e non voler esser amante, Venice, 1805; Il trionfo d’Emilio, Milan, 1805; Il giuocatore, Erminia o la Vestale, Rome, 1806; Napoleone il Grande al tempio dell’immortalità, cantata, La sorpresa, L’amor vince l’inganno, Venice, 1806; Sapersi sciegliere un degno sposo, L’alloggio militare, ib., 1807; I baccanali, Leghorn, 1807; La festa della rosa, L’amor perfetto, I Cherusci, Venice, 1808; L’Aristodemo, Naples, 1808; Il servo padrone, Il maldicente, Bologna, 1809; Le Amazzoni, Bergamo, 1809; Il Corradino, Venice, 1810; Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, Turin, 1810; Trajano in Dacia, Milan, L’orfanella di Ginevra, ossia Arminia, 1810; Il Giobbe, oratorio, Bologna, 1810; Ser Marc’Antonio, La contadina abruzzese, Il monastero, Milan, 1811; La Nitteti, Turin, 1812; Tancredi, Milan, 1812; Amore e generosità, L’ostregario, Il Teodoro, Venice, 1812; La forza dei simpatici, Una giornata pericolosa, ib., 1813; Irene e Filandro, Naples, 1813; L’Agatina, Milan, 1814; La Celanira, Venice, 1815; La fiera di Brindisi, Modena, 1815; Le Danaïde romane, Venice, 1816; La gioventù di Cesare, Milan, 1817; Il tiranno geloso, Venice, 1818; I pitocchi fortunati, Venice, 1819; Il trionfo di Gedeone, oratorio, Modena, 1819; Don Gusmano, ib., 1819; Il gran naso, Naples, 1820; Eugenia degli Astolfi, Naples, 1820; L’Arminio o l’eroe germano, Venice, 1821; L’Andromacca, Milan, 1822; L’Inès d’Almeida, Anco Marcio, Naples, 1822; L’Egilda di Provenza, Venice, 1823; I cavalieri del nodo, Naples, 1823; Andano e Dartulla, ib., 1825; Il solitario ed Elvida, Naples, 1826; Antigono e Lauso, Milan, 1827; La donna bianca d’Avenello, ib., 1830; Fenella o la muta di Portici, Venice, 1831; L’incognito; La fiera; La gloria, cantata. He published also a quantity of church music and, with Gazzaniga, a collection entitled: Salmi, Cantici ed Inni Cristiani del Conte L. Tadini, posti in musica popolare (Milan).—Sanseverino, Biog. di Stefano Pavesi (Milan, 1851); Fétis; do., Supplément, ii. 312; Mendel; Schilling.
7PAVILLON DES FLEURS LE, ou les pêcheurs de Grenade, comédie-lyrique in one act, text by R. C. Guilbert de Pixérécourt, music by Dalayrac, first represented at the Opéra Comique, Paris, May 13, 1822. It was a posthumous arrangement of the Pavillon du Calife, ou Almanzor et Zobéide, opera in two acts, text by Deschamps and Morel, music by Dalayrac, first given at the Opéra, Paris, April 11, 1804.—Clément et Larousse, 519.
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