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Umberto Giordano
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Italian opera composer (1867–1948)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1867-08-28 ) 28 August 1867, Foggia , Apulia , Italy
- Died
- 12 November 1948 (1948-11-12) (aged 81), Milan , Italy
- Occupation
- Composer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Foggia
- Place of death
- Milan
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Notable work
- Andrea Chénier
- Genre
- opera
- Image
- Umberto Giordano, 1942 - collezione Tino Barindelli.tif
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- Commons category
- Umberto Giordano
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- date of birth
- 1867-08-28
- date of death
- 1948-11-12
- topic's main category
- Category:Umberto Giordano
- birth name
- Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano
- name in native language
- Umberto Giordano
- place of burial
- monumental cemetery of Milan
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Umberto Giordano
- Commons Creator page
- Umberto Giordano
- member of
- Royal Academy of Italy
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Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Umberto Giordano, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![Andrea [Chenier]: [“Wounded You Me” (Colpito qui m 'avete)]/[Giordano]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F000456%2Ffon_snp_a_000456_01_hp.jpg&type=IMAGE)
Andrea [Chenier]: [“Wounded You Me” (Colpito qui m 'avete)]/[Giordano]
Fedoro: “Amor ti vieta”/(Giordano)
![Includes: Fedora, La donna russa/Giordano [Unity Thought: Fedora <La donna russa>. - Proprietà Sonzogno Milano] (additional template title)](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fb%2F006057%2Ffon_snp_b_006057_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
Includes: Fedora, La donna russa/Giordano [Unity Thought: Fedora <La donna russa>. - Proprietà Sonzogno Milano] (additional template title)
Andrea Chenier: Un dì all 'azzurro spazio/(Giordano)
Andrea Chenier/(Giordano)
Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier : dramma di ambiente storico ; scritto in quattro quadri
Mala vita : melodramma in tre atti
Mala vita : melodramma in tre atti
Il voto : melodramma in tre atti
André Chénier : musikalisches Drama mit geschichtlichem Hintergrunde : in vier Bildern von L. Illica
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Encyclopedic overview
Umberto Giordano (1896) by Gaetano Esposito Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896).
He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, Marina, was written for a competition promoted by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian verismo. The winner was Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. Giordano, the youngest contestant, was placed sixth among seventy-three entries with his Marina, a work which generated enough interest for Sonzogno to commission the staging of an opera based on it in the 1891–92 season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umberto Giordano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.