Giuseppe Mosca

Giuseppe Mosca (1772 in Naples – 1839 in Messina) was an Italian opera composer, the older brother of Luigi Mosca, also an opera composer.[1] He is mainly remembered as the composer who said that Rossini copied in La pietra del paragone the "crescendo" from his opera I pretendenti delusi.[2]

Set design for Amori all'Armi (Milan 1813)

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  1. Operisti minori dell'800 italiano – Page 99 Corrado Ambìveri – 1998 "GIUSEPPE MOSCA Napoli 1772 – Messina 1839 Compì gli studi musicali nel conservatorio di S. Maria di Loreto in Napoli, avendo il Ir nardi come maestro di contrappunto e composizione. A soli diciotto anni fece il suo esordio come operista "
  2. D'une scène à l'autre: l'opéra italien en Europe Volume 2 : La ... – Page 222 Damien Colas, Alessandro Di Profio – 2009 the only comic opera Rossini prepared for Naples, many of whose verses are incorporated without change from Gaetano Rossi's Avviso al pubblico, written for Giuseppe Mosca in 1814 (both texts are ultimately derived from the 1763 play)


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