FENAROLI, FEDELE. – Composer of music and theorist, born in Lanciano on 25 April 1730 and died in Naples on 1 January 1818. He studied with Durante, Leo, and Porpora at the Conservatory of S. Maria di Loreto in Naples and, from 1755 onward, taught at that of the Pietà dei Turchini.
Cimarosa, Mercadante, Pavesi, and Zingarelli were among his pupils, and a treatise of his with examples and exercises in figured bass, Partimenti e regole musicali... (Naples 1775), is deservedly famous. His sacred music is exceedingly extensive, including solemn Masses with orchestra, a Requiem, motets, hymns, Lamentations, cantatas, Te Deum, responsories, lessons, Miserere, a Stabat, and the oratorio Abigaille, from 1760.
BIBL.: T. Consalvo, La teoria musicale del F., Naples 1826. Anna Maria Gentili