Antonio Buzzolla (2 March 1815 – 20 March 1871) was an Italian composer and conductor. A native of Adria, he studied in Venice, and later worked with Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante. He composed five operas, but was better known in his lifetime for ariettas and canzonettas in the Venetian dialect. Beginning in 1855 he served as the of the Cappella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Buzzolla was one of the composers invited by Giuseppe Verdi to contribute to the Messa per Rossini; he composed the opening movement, the Requiem e Kyrie. He died in Venice in 1871 and was interred at the San Michele cemetery on the Isola di San Michele in Venice.
Compositions
Sacred works
Messa a quattro parti e piena orchestra
Requiem a quattro
Requiem aeternam e Kyrie della Messa per Rossini (1871 al Teatro La Fenice di Venezia con Teresa Stolz ed Achille De Bassini) Miserere, a tre voci many works for Cappella Marciana not published.
Piano Music
Sonata [n. 1] in mi bemolle maggiore, Op. 1
Sonata n. 2 in sol maggiore
Marziale in do maggiore
Notturno in fa minore
Due valzer
Operas
Ferramondo (Venezia, Teatro San Benedetto, 3 December 1836) Mastino I° della Scala (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 31 May 1841) Gli Avventurieri (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 14 May 1842) Amleto (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 24 February 1848) Elisabetta di Valois (Venezia, Gran Teatro La Fenice, 16 February 1850) La puta onorata, (in Venetian dialect, after Carlo Goldoni) unfinished
Songs
Serate a Rialto, a una voce con accompagnamento di pianoforte
Il gondoliere, raccolta di dodici ariette veneziane
I giardinieri, duetto in veneziano
La campana del tramonto
La desolada
La farfala
Un baso in falo
Un ziro in gondola
Mi e ti
El fresco
El canto
Cantata funebre dei caduti di Solferino e S. Martino
References
Biography from Answers.com
External links
1815 births
1871 deaths
Burials at Isola di San Michele
19th-century classical composers
19th-century Italian composers
19th-century conductors (music) Cappella Marciana composers Cappella Marciana maestri Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Italian opera composers Italian conductors (music) Italian male conductors (music) Male opera composers People from the Province of Rovigo Culture in Venice