Education
Born in Valletta, he studied privately with Pietro Paolo Bugeja and then under Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli and Giacomo Tritto at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples from 1821 to 1827.
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Alessandro Curmi
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As a composer Curmi was primarily focused on writing operas. His first opera, Gustavo d"Orxa, was received enthusiastically at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples in 1827. His greatest success, Elodia di Herstall, came at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1842.
The three operas, Louisiana rosièr, Louisiana reine des fates, and Lodoïska were all performed there in 1844.
Curmi returned to Paris in the winter of 1845 with the intent of composing a grand opera. However, these plans never came to fruition because of the political situation in France.
Instead Curmi composed the orchestral fantasia in six sections, Louisiana rivoluzione, which was also heard in Malta in 1853. He died in Naples in 1857.
Membership
He later became a member of Bologna"s Accademia Filarmonica.
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Malta