D'Arienzo, Nicola

D'ARIENZIO, NICOLA. — Musician, born in Naples on 22 December 1842, died there on 25 April 1915.

From 1875 to 1904 he taught at the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Maiella. He composed numerous operas and orchestral music, including a Stabat Mater for five voices with chorus and strings, which contains very interesting passages; a Miserere for five voices; and Christ on the Cross, for soloists, chorus and orchestra. He wrote pedagogical works, among them Introduzione del sistema tetracordale nella musica moderna (Milan 1878), as well as studies and essays.
DAR-ES-SALAAM — View of the port.

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(from M. Dienlafog, L'art antique de la Perse, Paris 1885) DARIO - D. kills the monster. Bas-relief from the palace of D. at Persepolis.
On Gesualdo da Venosa, Salvator Rosa, comic opera, Italian melodrama, and music in Naples.

BIBL.: A. della Corte: Un maestro: N. d'A., in Riv. music. ital., 22 (1915), pp. 327-41. Anna Maria Gentili
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“D'ARIENZIO, NICOLA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 723. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arienzio-nicola.