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[extrait de:] James L. JACKMAN: 'Parenti, Paolo Francesco', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
Parenti, Paolo Francesco
(b Naples, 15 Sept 1764; d Paris, 1821). Italian composer and singing master. He studied at the Pietà dei Turchini conservatory in Naples […]. In the next few years he is said to have written a good deal of sacred music […]. During this period he was probably often away from Naples. According to Gervasoni and the Biografia he composed four serious operas and three comic ones; oddly, except for Nitteti, no production records have been located for these works, although Florimo said that La vendemmia was his first opera, written for Naples, and Villarosa reported that Il matrimonio per fanatismo was greatly applauded in Rome.
In 1790 Parenti went to Paris, where, according to Fétis, he was first employed by the Opéra-Comique to add pieces to a revival of Gluck’s La rencontre imprévue on 1 May. This was given as Les fous de Médine and not, as previously thought, in translation as I pazzi di Medina (Brenner). Lœwenberg, however, maintained that the new musical arrangement was by J.P. Solié. He subsequently wrote four comic works for the Théâtre Italien. Villarosa claimed that Parenti served as director of the Italian comic opera in Paris for the year 1802, though this fact has not been substantiated. Otherwise, he supported himself as a singing teacher of the Italian style, for which he had a high reputation."
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