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Francesco Cilea
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1866
- Died
- 1950
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Adriʼanah Laḳovrer--Frants'esḳo Ts'ileʼah
- Lettere a Francesco Cilea, 1878-1910
- L'Arlesiana
- Adriana Lecouvreur
- Adriana Lecouvreur
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound · Palmi, Calabria, Italy
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Italy
- Active from
- 1866
- Active to
- 1950
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18,872
- Total plays
- 74,604
Tags
Francesco Cilea (July 26, 1866 – November 20, 1950) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Palmi near Reggio Calabria, Francesco Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it. He was sent to study music at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he quickly demonstrated his diligence and precocious talent, earning a gold medal from the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (Depa
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 21,705x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Francesco Cilea , 23 July 1866, Palmi, Calabria , Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 20 November 1950 (1950-11-20) (aged 84), Varazze , Liguria , Italian Republic
- Occupation
- Composer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Palmi
- Place of death
- Varazze
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Notable work
- Adriana Lecouvreur
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Photo Portrait of the Italian composer Francesco Cilea 1930 - Touring Club Italiano 11 5259.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1866-07-23
- date of death
- 1950-11-20
- Commons category
- Francesco Cilea
- name in native language
- Francesco Cilea
- member of
- Royal Academy of Italy
- writing language
- Italian
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Francesco Cilea, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesco Cilea ( Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko tʃiˈlɛːa]; 23 July 1866 – 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francesco Cilea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.