Gian Francesco de Majo
Gian Francesco de Majo (24 March 1732 – 17 November 1770) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his more than 20 operas. He also composed a considerable amount of sacred works, including oratorios, cantatas, and masses.[1]
Life and career
Born in
In 1761 and 1763 Majo traveled to Northern Italy, where he presented several of his compositions and studied for a short period with Giovanni Battista Martini. After a short time in Naples, he went to the court in Vienna, where he was commissioned to write the opera Alcide negli orti esperidi for the coronation of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. He then spent some time in Mannheim and Madrid before returning to Italy in 1765.
Majo continued to work as an organist at the royal chapel in Naples, ultimately succeeding his father as maestro di cappella in 1767. Having contracted tuberculosis in 1760, Majo ultimately succumbed to the disease and died of it ten years later.
Works
- Ricimero, re dei goti (1759) Parma
- Cajo Fabrizio (1760) Naples
- Astrea placata (1760) Naples
- Almeria (1761) Livorno
- Artaserse (1762) Venice
- Catone in Utica (1762) Turin
- Demofoonte (1763) Rome
- Alcide negli orti esperidi (1764) Vienna
- Ifigenia in Tauride (Majo) (1764) Mannheim
- Montezuma (1765) Turin
- La costanza fortunata (La constancia dichosa) (1765) Madrid
- Alessandro (nell'Indie) (1765) Mannheim
- Antigono (1767) Venice
- Antigona (1768) Rome
- Ipermestra (1768) Naples
- Adriano in Siria (1769) Rome
- Didone abbandonata (1770) Venice
- Eumene (1st act) (1771) Naples
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