Name Egidio Duni | Role Composer | |
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Librettists Charles Simon Favart, Louis Anseaume Compositions Le peintre amoureux de son modele, Le peintre amoureux de son modele, La fee Urgele, La fee Urgele, Demofonte, Demofonte, L'ecole de la jeunesse, L'ecole de la jeunesse Similar People Niccolo Piccinni, Pasquale Anfossi, Stefano Fonzi, Pierre‑Alexandre Monsigny, Saverio Mercadante | ||
Egidio Romualdo Duni (11 February 1708 – 11 June 1775) was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas.
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Biography
Born in Matera, Duni was taught music by his father, Francesco Duni, and two sisters. At the age of nine, he was accepted at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, near Naples. There he worked with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, and other masters of Italian opera.
His first success was with the opera Nerone presented at the Rome Carnival in 1735. Thereafter he was in London (Demofoonte, 1737), returning to Italy where he eventually became maestro di cappella in Parma in 1749.
The latter part of his career was spent in France where he played a key role in the development of the Comedie melee d'ariettes (an early form of opera comique), with such works as Le peintre amoureux de son modele (Paris, 1757), La fee Urgele (Fontainebleau, 1765), and L'ecole de la jeunesse (Paris, 1765).
He died in Paris.