Carmine Giordano (c. 1685 in
Cerreto Sannita
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– 1758 in
Naples
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) was an Italian composer and organist. He studied at the
Conservatorio napoletano della Pietà dei Turchini with
Gennaro Ursino (1650–1715) and
Nicola Fago.
It was long mistakenly thought that Carmine Giordano was father of
Tommaso Giordano, who died in
Dublin
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, and Giuseppe Giordano (1743–1798), called "Giordanello," but this turns out not to be the case; their father was Giuseppe Giordano, an opera buffa singer.
[ T. J. Walsh. ''Opera in Dublin, 1705-1797: the social scene'' 1973 "An earlier theory that a composer, Carmine Giordani (c. 1685/ 1758) was the father both of Tommaso, mentioned above, and a Giuseppe Giordano (c. 1753/ 1798) called Giordanello has now been justly discredited. "]
Bibliography
* Enrica Donisi (2012). ''Istituti, bande e società. Studi sulla musica a Benevento tra il 1561 e il 1961''. Edizioni Realtà Sannita, Benevento, pp. 122–124.
References
1680s births
1758 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
18th-century Italian composers
Italian organists
Italian male organists
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