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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Dennis LIBBY, Marita P. McCLYMONDS : 'Tarchi, Angelo', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Tarchi, Angelo [Angiolo]
(b Naples, c1760; d Paris, 19 Aug 1814). Italian composer. […] In 1778 his first opera, a Neapolitan dialect comedy, was performed so successfully at the conservatory that the king commanded a performance at the palace in Caserta. This was followed by three more comic operas for Neapolitan theatres in 1778–80, his last for that city except for one in 1790. From 1781 to Carnival 1785 he worked mostly in Rome and then farther north, centring his activities on Florence in 1785 and Milan in 1787–8. […]
The quick growth of his reputation resulted in his appointment as music director and composer at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London, for the seasons December 1787 to June 1788 and January to June 1789 […] In 1790 his earlier opera Il conte de Saldagna (1787) was performed in Paris, and two new comic works were given there in 1790–91. Continuing his career in Italy, he is said by Fétis to have fallen ill on a visit to Naples in 1793, making a slow recovery and not producing a new opera until Carnival 1794–5. […] His last Italian works were performed early in 1797. He then went to Paris and attempted to establish himself as an opéra comique composer, having seven works performed between late 1798 and early 1802. But he never found the formula for success in that genre. […] Several of his attempts were failures (Fétis called D’auberge en auberge, 1800, his best), and he finally abandoned the stage, remaining in Paris as a fashionable singing teacher."
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