Background
Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini was born on 18 November 1781 in Turin, Italy. In 1797 the family moved to the south of France, and in 1799 to Paris.
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Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini
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Career
In 1789, choir-boy at Turin cathedral, at 12 he played the cathedral organ, composed sacred music, and was a skilful cellist. He gave concerts, wrote fashionable romances, and came into vogue as an opera-composer in 1802, when he completed Della-Maria’s La fausse duegne ,as a singing- teacher he was also in request. After producing an opera in Munich (1805), he was appointed court Kapellm (1806), and Princess Borghese made him her Director of Music. King Jerome appointed him General Music-Director at Kassel in 1809. in 1814, he was made superintendent of the King’s music and composer to the Court, and also professor of singing at the Conservatory; but in 1830 he lost all his places at Court, and passed the remainder of his days in comparative obscurity.He wrote 30 operas, 4 masses with organ, 170 notturnos for 2 voices, and 174 romances for one voice.
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1789
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1802
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