INSANGUINE, GIACOMO. – Musician, known as Monopoli after the town of that name in Apulia, where he was born around 1740; he died in Naples in 1795.
An opera composer of the Neapolitan school, he composed 21 operas, both comic and serious. He studied under Cotumacci at the Conservatory of S. Onofrio in Naples, where he became second choir master. His career, however, unfolded mainly at the Tesoro di S. Gennaro, where, in 1774, he was appointed organist of the second choir, in 1776 organist of the first choir, and finally, in 1781, maestro di cappella, succeeding Fago in that position. He composed a great deal of sacred music: masses, hymns, and psalms, among which Psalm 71 for three voices, choir, and orchestra is outstanding.
BIBL.: F. Florimo, La scuola musicale di Napoli, II, Naples 1882, pp. 225 ff.; S. di Giacomo, Mostri di cappella, musicì e strumenti al Tesoro di S. Gennaro nei secc. XVII e XVIII, Naples 1920, pp. 175 ff. Luisa Cervelli