Michele Carafa
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Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was professor of counterpoint at
Michele Carafa: lithograph by Antoine Maurin
Ferdinand Hérold
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Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote balle
Michele Carafa
…aria for his opera Mosè in Egitto (1818). It was the Pharaoh's aria in the first act. However, Rossini would later rewrite the aria at the request of Ferdinand Hérold, who conducted the opera in Paris. Carafa's music is marked by a certain lightness of melody and simple orchestration, in a period dominated by Rossini…
Hérold, engraving after Louis Dupré
The composer's birthplace, in the Paris street now named after him
Hérold in 1813: medallion by his fellow student David d'Angers
La Clochette, an early operatic success for Hérold, 1817