Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Music Musicians, musicologists and theorists

D'Arienzo, Nicola

D'ARIENZIO, NICOLA

Italian original Cite

Also known as: Italian: Nicolò D'Arienzo

D'ARIENZO, NICOLA. - Musician, b. in Naples on 22 Dec. 1842, d. there on 25 Apr. 1915.

From 1875 to 1904 he taught at the conservatory of S. Pietro a Maiella. He composed numerous operas and orchestral music, as well as a Stabat Mater for 5 voices with choir and strings, which has very interesting passages; a Miserere for 5 voices; Cristo sulla Croce, for soloists, choir and orchestra. He wrote didactic works including the Introduzione del sistema tetracordale nella musica moderna (Milan 1878), as well as studies and essays on Gesualdo da Venosa, Salvator Rosa, comic opera,
Italian melodrama and music in Naples.

Bibliography

BIBL.: A. della Corte: Un maestro: N. d'A., in Riv. music. ital., 22 (1915), pp. 327-41.

Anna Maria Gentili

About this entry

By Anna Maria Gentili

How we know signed in print

Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), coll. 1222–1223.

More by Anna Maria Gentili: Degli Antoni, Pietro · Demantius, Christoph · Dentice · De Rossi, Giuseppe · Di Bartolo, Erasmo

Cite this article

Chicago

Gentili, Anna Maria. “D'Arienzio, nicola.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1222–1223. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arienzio-nicola.

MLA

Gentili, Anna Maria. “D'Arienzio, nicola.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1222–1223. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arienzio-nicola.

BibTeX

@incollection{ec4_d_arienzio_nicola,
  author    = {Gentili, Anna Maria},
  title     = {D'Arienzio, nicola},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1222--1223},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arienzio-nicola}
}

One of some 20,000 entries brought back from the twelve printed volumes (1948–54). Spotted something? Help us improve it.